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During another Senate hearing on the border crisis Wednesday, GOP Senator Josh Hawley slammed Department of Homeland Security head Alejandro Mayorkas and charged that he is allowing child slavery to thrive among migrant communities within the U.S.
“I tell you what I’m tired of,” Hawley noted, continuing “I’ve had Secretary Mayorkas sit in front of me in a different committee, the Homeland Security Committee, where I asked him at length about the outrage of 250,000 migrant children, unaccompanied, crossing the border in the last two years and tens of thousands of them being sold into slavery.”
“Let’s not mince words: they’ve been sold into slavery. When kids are being put into factories, forced to work overnight, forced to work in terrible conditions, they’re not getting paid, they’re not going to school, sometimes they’re not getting fed, that’s slavery,” Hawley further urged.
The Senator continued, “And what I’ve heard from Secretary Mayorkas — don’t take my word for it; you go look at the record, read the transcript — what he told me was, ‘Oh it’s not my problem. We don’t have anything to do with it. Not my problem.’”
“Now we have a new report from [the Department of Health and Human Services] where they say it’s not their problem,” the Missouri Senator added, further noting “Amazing how this works. Nobody’s responsible, these kids are literally being sold as slaves in the United States of America in the year of 2023 and nobody’s responsible.”
“They don’t want you to come and testify to this committee. You bet they don’t. They don’t want to be put under oath. They don’t want to answer any questions. They don’t want cameras here. They don’t want to take any responsibility. Well I tell you, it’s somebody’s fault. It’s not the kids’ fault,” Hawley blasted.
The Senator also cited a New York Times piece that detailed how migrant children, some barely even teenagers are being put to work in factories on 13 hour shifts.
“Let the record reflect that this administration has let tens of thousands of children be sold into slavery, and they are doing nothing about it,” Hawley emphasised, adding “We need to figure out what in the world is going on and who’s to be held accountable for this, because I tell you what’s not an acceptable answer: it’s not acceptable to say, ‘It’s not my problem; we wish the kids the best.’”
“The kids are in danger, the kids are in slavery, the kids are being exploited, and it should not happen in the United States of America!” Hawley asserted.
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