<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/border-patrol" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Border Patrol</a> agents are sounding the alarm about increased child exploitation at the southern border, where children as young as 8 years old have been found drugged and “recycled” by smugglers.
In recent weeks, authorities have rescued numerous children at the border from smugglers, border patrol sources have told the <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/09/24/us-news/kids-are-being-drugged-and-trafficked-into-the-us-border-patrol/">New York Post</a>. 
In one instance, a woman traveling with two children, ages 8 and 11, was found to have drugged the minors with sleeping pills. The woman was not related to the children, though she tried to pose as their mother. The authentic birth certificates she showed authorities were not for the children she was traveling with. 
Border agents, in another case, rescued a child who had similarly been “heavily dosed with sleep aids to prevent him from talking” to authorities, the Post report says. Those traffickers had birth certificates for other children, too.
Agents say smugglers are using children numerous times, or “recycling&#8221; them, to pose as family units and try to gain entry to the U.S. 
One border patrol source told the Post that at the height of an immigration influx, they had to “let family units in.” He said after a while, agents noticed the same children cycling through, but with different “parents.”
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 “I hate thinking about it, because there were thousands of kids, and who knows where they all ended up,&#8221; the source said.
There have been <a href="https://www.borderreport.com/immigration/border-crime/cruz-says-wristbands-smugglers-use-to-track-migrants-are-like-leg-irons/">reports</a> for years about migrants wearing wristbands that correspond with how much money they owe cartels for helping them get to the US. Elected officials have highlighted this exploitation, specifically to children, and urged for increased border security.
“Along the southern border, you see thousands of these wristbands because the illegal immigrants wear them,&#8221; Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) <a href="https://x.com/TheThe1776/status/1640849576121991168/video/1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas last year, during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. 
&#8220;Every color corresponds to how many thousands of dollars they owe the cartels,&#8221; the senator continued. &#8220;You have turned these cartels into multibillion-dollar criminal organizations. And these are modern-day leg irons, because these are children being sold into sex slavery.”
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Senator Ted Cruz lashed out at Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas: “…What are these wrist bands? …These are modern day leg irons because these are children being sold in to Sex slavery and you don’t even know what they are… Do you know how many children have been sold into Sex… <a href="https://t.co/5v7JIVo7ky">pic.twitter.com/5v7JIVo7ky</a>
— ꪻꫝể ꪻꫝể (@TheThe1776) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheThe1776/status/1640849576121991168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 28, 2023</a></blockquote>
The exploitation is happening to young migrants after the Biden-Harris administration is quickly placing them with sponsors, too. 
Muckraker <a href="https://x.com/realmuckraker/status/1838955113718722583" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> a video this week of first-hand accounts of young migrants who were placed with sponsors and suffered. One minor said her sponsor is forcing her to pay her $10,000 for taking her in. Another young female, who ended up temporarily homeless, described a similar experience.
“She would tell me that if I didn’t have money for rent, she would kick me out,&#8221; the minor said. &#8220;And to this day, she’s still charging me $4,000 for my trip from Honduras.”
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— Muckraker.com (@realmuckraker) <a href="https://twitter.com/realmuckraker/status/1838955113718722583?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 25, 2024</a></blockquote>
Last year, it was initially reported that <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/release/hearing-wrap-up-orr-director-fails-to-answer-questions-about-85000-lost-unaccompanied-alien-children-flawed-vetting-of-sponsors-and-more%EF%BF%BC/">85,000 unaccompanied migrant children</a> were unaccounted for, or lost, by HHS. The number is currently estimated at 320,000.
Due to the migrant influx, the HHS Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) has been overwhelmed, and Republicans say the department is prioritizing the speedy release of migrant children over their safety, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrats-move-to-loosen-oversight-of-sponsors-that-take-and-often-lose-migrant-children" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Wire&#8217;s Luke Rosiak</a> reported.
Still, Senate Democrats are working to loosen oversight of child migrant sponsorship. Under the proposed “<a href="https://www.congress.gov/118/bills/s4393/BILLS-118s4393is.xml">Children’s Safe Welcome Act of 2024</a>,” HHS would have to make its decision about whether to release a child to a proposed sponsor within just seven days of receiving an application.

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