"Traffickers Exploiting Illegal Child Labor with Social Security Fraud; Underage Migrant: ‘I Started Working’ to Pay Cartel Debt … ‘I Cannot Work Legally Here’" by Project Veritas
I am reposting this important new exposé of child trafficking by Project Veritas which I noticed whilst scanning Twitter.
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
Traffickers Exploiting Illegal Child Labor with Social Security Fraud; Underage Migrant: ‘I Started Working’ to Pay Cartel Debt … ‘I Cannot Work Legally Here’
Frander, Male Migrant: “I cannot work legally here...It's a small piece of paper that you get to be able to apply for jobs. A social security [card]. You just call the person, and he comes to your home and brings it.”
Frander says he was forced to pay “$150” to obtain a fake social security card.
Underage Female Migrant: “When I got here [to the United States], I began studying, and then working. I went to school for six months. From a year ago, I began working…I go in [to work] at 4PM and get out at 2AM.”
Underage Male Migrant: You go to work “wherever they take you.”
Tara Lee Rodas, Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity & Efficiency: “I think most people believe, and I originally thought, that sponsors were families because HHS says, ‘We’re reuniting children with their families.’ In fact, that’s not the case.”
Rodas: “This is a terrible thing, and then you look at some of these children who are teenagers, who’ve never been to school, can’t read, can’t write. It’s a very wicked thing to take advantage of these children.”
[WASHINGTON, D.C. – Nov. 30, 2022] Project Veritas released a new video today which shows several migrants detailing their experiences upon arriving in the United States.
These individuals said they were removed from school, put through forced labor, and even provided with fake social security cards -- all of this to pay off debts to cartels.
“When I got here [to the United States], I began studying, and then working. I went to school for six months. From a year ago, I began working…I go in [to work] at 4PM and get out at 2AM,” an underage female migrant said.
Frander, who is a male migrant, said he “cannot work legally” in the United States, but since he was forced to pay “$150” for “a small piece of paper that you get to be able to apply for jobs – a social security [card],” he has been able to work.
“You just call the person, and he comes to your home and brings it [fake social security card],” Frander explained.
Another underage male migrant even stated that migrants go to work “wherever they take you,” referring to the cartels / traffickers.
Tara Lee Rodas, the whistleblower who approached Project Veritas from within the federal government to expose all of this, said she was horrified by what has been taking place.
“I think most people believe, and I originally thought, that sponsors were families because HHS says, ‘We’re reuniting children with their families.’ In fact, that’s not the case,” Rodas said.
“This is a terrible thing, and then you look at some of these children who are teenagers, who’ve never been to school, can’t read, can’t write. It’s a very wicked thing to take advantage of these children,” she said.
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I am sure that this is not limited to the U.S.
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Human trafficking is a very uncomfortable topic for a lot of people.
The article barely scratches the surface. The fact that US policy is to allow millions to come into the country illegally is set up to hide a very dark reality of organized crime and exploitation and abuse of these people who are trapped and without any rights or representation. The future for most of them is indentured servitude, prostitution, drug trafficking, and sometimes worse. Especially venerable are the kids, who are often separated from their parents and taken for labor and/or sexual exploitation.
People seem to prefer that it all stays in the dark, out of sight, and so it infests every community under a shroud of silence and denial. And Americans love the effects of the cheap labor...
We hear a lot of public discussion about the politics of open borders and potential effects on elections, and we sometimes hear about drugs, and about the rest it's crickets.
About a year ago when Veritas was first starting this investigation and hiring more investigators, I offered to help train their people to teach them how these trafficking networks operate and what to look for, but they never responded. It appears that their progress is minimal, and that might be the plan.