On Tuesday, House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Border Security and Enforcement Chairman Clay Higgins (R-LA) and Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability Chairman Dan Bishop (R-NC) ripped into the Biden administration for its policies at the U.S. southwest border that have devastated children.
“We are here today to examine how the Biden-Harris administration’s open border policies have allowed dangerous cartels, criminals, and human traffickers to prey upon the world’s most vulnerable people – unaccompanied children,” Higgins began.
“As the administration’s border crisis continues to spiral out of control, the number of unaccompanied minors arriving at the Southwest border has skyrocketed, turning the situation at the border into a devastating humanitarian catastrophe,” he continued. “In fact, the Biden-Harris administration has encountered nearly 530,000 alien children at the border to date. In comparison, the previous Trump administration had less than half that number”.
“America, ask yourself, ‘Why are so many children arriving at the border alone and afraid and sometimes in the hands of unconfirmed ‘relatives’ with no apparent familial indicators?’” he urged. “These children show up with arbitrary phone numbers and addresses scribbled across their arms as if they are a package arriving at somebody’s doorstep. Some children arrive at the border drugged, preventing law enforcement authorities from questioning them about those they are traveling with. This is a moral outrage.”
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“The Biden-Harris administration has touted that they have the most ‘humanitarian’ border policies in history,” he noted. “Yet, there is nothing humanitarian about enabling the cartels to exploit, abuse, and profit from vulnerable children!”
Bishop added:
<blockquote>While CBP is usually the first point of contact for UACs (unaccompanied alien children) who cross the border, the Health and Human Services Department’s Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) is primarily responsible for the care and placement of these children. Much of this work is done in partnership with nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that provide shelter and services.
Under the Biden-Harris Administration, these NGOs received a windfall of taxpayer money through ORR, whose budget for its unaccompanied children program was 6.9 billion dollars in FY 2023. &#8230;
What did we spend all that money on? The Biden-Harris Administration placed political aims above the welfare of unaccompanied migrant children who crossed, or were trafficked across, the southern border, releasing UACs with inadequate vetting and follow-up to avoid the bad optics of crowded facilities. &#8230;
32,000 children didn’t show up for their immigration court hearings. Those hearing dates are one of the only opportunities that ICE must engage with unaccompanied children and observe signs of trafficking or exploitation.
What happened to those 32,000 children? We don’t know. We can’t reach them.
This is just the tip of the iceberg. Over 290,000 have been released by HHS without a notice to appear for an immigration court date. There is no way for ICE to monitor the location and status of these migrant children or verify their safety. </blockquote>
The Biden administration was so focused on moving people through the system as fast as it could that it failed to ensure the safety of the children being released. Many of these children already suffered at the hands of criminal cartels on the treacherous journey to the border, only to find themselves exploited again after leaving government custody.
The human cost of this crisis is simply heartbreaking and tragic.

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A North Carolina Democrat running in a high-profile race to be the state&#8217;s attorney general hugged a convicted sex offender after receiving an LGBTQ award in 2022, according to video footage obtained by The Daily Wire.
Footage of the December 13, 2022 Carolinas LGBT+ Chamber of Commerce event shows Rep. Jeff Jackson (D-NC) praising the work of LGBTQ activists on stage before embracing Chad Turner, a registered sex offender and CEO of the Charlotte LGBT Chamber of Commerce. Turner, who has not responded to multiple requests for comment from The Daily Wire, <a href="https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/nc-bathroom-bill-opposition-leader-a-sex-offender/">was charged</a> with three cases of lewd acts on minors under the age of 16.
&#8220;You are an enormously influential, and positive force for this city, for the people who live here, I&#8217;m so grateful for you,&#8221; Jackson told the assembled crowd, after the chamber <a href="https://qnotescarolinas.com/carolinas-lgbt-chamber-recognizes-winners-of-2020-2021-business-community-awards-at-annual-gala/">awarded</a> him the &#8220;Advancing Equity Award.&#8221;
After Jackson left the stage, Turner took the mic to condemn &#8220;harmful bills sitting in the hopper,&#8221; an apparent reference to efforts to protect women&#8217;s spaces from men who identify as transgender women. &#8220;It&#8217;s going to be up to us to keep those people in check,&#8221; he added.
Turner accused the boys of lying, but authorities sentenced him to 10 years in prison after convicting him in July 2000 of fondling a 15-year-old boy. He only served two years of this sentence, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13093009/Powerful-LGBTQ-advocacy-group-Human-Rights-Campaign-welcomes-man-know-convicted-PEDOPHILE-gala-previously-handing-prestigious-award.html">according to the Daily Mail,</a> but is a registered sex offender under the North Carolina Sex Offender and Public Protection Registry.
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NEW: We obtained a video showing Democrat <a href="https://twitter.com/JeffJacksonNC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JeffJacksonNC</a>, who is running to become NC&#8217;s attorney general, hugging a convicted sex offender after receiving an LGBTQ award.
Chad Turner is a registered sex offender, accused of fondling the genitals of boys while they slept. <a href="https://t.co/b1J5j2t0Lp">pic.twitter.com/b1J5j2t0Lp</a>
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Jackson is currently running against Rep. Dan Bishop (R-NC) in what is <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/North_Carolina_Attorney_General_election,_2024">reported to be one</a> of the &#8220;nastiest&#8221; and most expensive races that the state has yet seen. In Congress, Bishop has distinguished himself as a hard-hitting member of the conservative Freedom Caucus, while Jackson <a href="https://www.hrc.org/press-releases/everything-at-stake-human-rights-campaign-endorses-josh-stein-for-governor-and-jeff-jackson-for-attorney-general-of-north-carolina">has won the accolades</a> from far-left groups that support transgender surgeries and hormones for minors.
A Jackson spokesman told The Daily Wire that the congressman &#8220;did not know about an individual’s status,&#8221; and was simply given an award by a &#8220;local chamber of commerce for supporting economic development.” Jackson&#8217;s office did not say whether the congressman would return the award, or continue to work with the organization.
Tami Fitzgerald, the executive director of the North Carolina Values Coalition, argued that Jackson would certainly have known who Turner was. She says it&#8217;s &#8220;common knowledge.&#8221;
&#8220;This was common knowledge at the legislature, where Jackson served and carried water for Turner&#8217;s issues,&#8221; Fitzgerald told The Daily Wire. &#8220;It was also common knowledge and received widespread media attention in Jackson and Turner&#8217;s hometown of Charlotte. It is inconceivable that Jeff Jackson did not know.&#8221;
Turner, the sex offender, has gone by a number of other names, including Chad Sevearance-Turner and Chad Eugene Sevealance. He formerly served as a youth music minister at New Harvest Church of God in Gaffney, South Carolina, where multiple young men accused him of inviting them over for sleepovers in 1998 — and then fondling their genitals while they slept.
Still, Turner managed to make a name for himself within the Charlotte LGBTQ activist community — even though members knew he was a registered sex offender, as the Charlotte LGBT Chamber of Commerce&#8217;s Melissa Morris <a href="https://qnotescarolinas.com/president-of-lgbt-chamber-resigns-amid-attacks-from-group-opposing-non-discrimination-ordinance/">told QNotesCarolinas in 2016</a>.
He began working as president of the group in 2013, according to this LinkedIn profile, and within three years the organization was getting high-profile attention. The Human Rights Campaign <a href="https://qnotescarolinas.com/for-a-second-year-hrc-gala-will-call-for-action-on-non-discrimination-ordinance/">honored</a> the Charlotte LGBT Chamber of Commerce with its &#8220;Organization of the Year Award&#8221; at its 2016 North Carolina Gala on <a href="https://qnotescarolinas.com/did-you-know-human-rights-campaigns-annual-n-c-gala-to-return-feb-10/">Feb. 10, 2016</a>.
&#8220;That organization has gone from 0 to 60 in less than seconds,&#8221;<a href="https://qnotescarolinas.com/for-a-second-year-hrc-gala-will-call-for-action-on-non-discrimination-ordinance/"> event organizer Dan Mauney</a> said at the time. &#8220;And it’s all because of their board, because of their members, and HRC wanted to honor them and recognize them.”
In March 2016, a number of local North Carolina media outlets reported that Turner had <a href="https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/article64943682.html">stepped down as president</a> of the Charlotte LGBT Chamber of Commerce after the North Carolina Values Coalition brought his alleged pedophile past into the news. He even gave a statement to the LGBTQ outlet &#8220;QNotesCarolinas,&#8221; dismissing the details of his sex offender past as irrelevant,<a href="https://qnotescarolinas.com/president-of-lgbt-chamber-resigns-amid-attacks-from-group-opposing-non-discrimination-ordinance/"> telling the publication</a>: &#8220;What I didn’t want to do was allow the right to continue to detract and to continue throwing stones at an organization that has done absolutely nothing but help individuals and our community in our city.&#8221;
But Turner&#8217;s resignation appears to have been a media ploy at best, and an outright lie at worst. The Charlotte LGBT Chamber of Commerce still lists him as its president and CEO, and his LinkedIn profile states that he served as the Charlotte LGBT Chamber of Commerce president from January 2013 to December 2020, and as its chief executive officer from December 2020 to present.
&#8220;My role as CEO at the Charlotte LGBT Chamber of Commerce allows me to drive initiatives that support and elevate LGBT+ businesses and professionals,&#8221; Turner&#8217;s LinkedIn profile says.
In spite of <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2016/03/07/convicted-sex-offender-leads-transgender-rights-effort-north-carolina/">high-profile news reports on his background</a>, Charlotte Pride selected Turner for its &#8220;2023 Harvey Milk Award,&#8221; <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/charlotte-pride-gives-2023-harvey-milk-award-to-convicted-sex-offender">recognizing his</a> &#8220;exceptional leadership, service to the community,&#8221; and his championing of LGBTQ causes in the &#8220;Charlotte community and beyond.&#8221;
Following media reports highlighting Turner&#8217;s past, Charlotte Pride announced in August 2023 that it would not be honoring anyone with the award that year, <a href="https://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/charlotte-pride-removes-2023-harvey-milk-award-recipient-website/FEKOU3KJMNCKVMCWZNVM4LXVEM/">claiming</a>: “We do not give every single award out every year. Charlotte Pride was originally going to do Harvey Milk, but upon further discussion, decided not to give out that award this year.&#8221;
An internet archive shows that the group was <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230805194403/https://charlottepride.org/champions/">planning on honoring Turner</a>, but removed its page. Charlotte Pride did not respond to The Daily Wire&#8217;s requests for comment on whether the organization was aware of Turner&#8217;s past, and whether Charlotte Pride itself employs registered sex offenders with offenses against minors. The Carolinas LGBT+ Chamber of Commerce did not respond to requests for comment.
This piece has been updated with comment from Tami Fitzgerald.

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