DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—An activist who fights sex trafficking argues that the trafficking of migrant girls has exploded since the beginning of the Biden-Harris administration, according to The Free Press. A woman who identifies herself as Lisa and runs a nonprofit dedicated to dismantling sex trafficking rings said that the number of girls being trafficked has drastically changed in the past few years as open border policies have made it easier for criminals to operate in the U.S., The Free Press reported Monday. The claims follow the entrance into the United States of hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied alien children, dubbed UACs, from Latin America and warnings from observers that federal officials aren’t properly tracking these children or vetting their sponsors. “Nearly all of my sex-trafficking rings now are migrant girls,” Lisa, who runs Shepherd’s Watch, a nonprofit group dedicated to locating victims of sex-trafficking rings and handing over their locations to police, told The Free Press. Much of the information Lisa and her team provided to police over the years resulted in suspected human traffickers being arrested and exploited girls being placed into proper care. The Shepherd’s Watch leader pointed to internet sites—including Facebook, TikTok, and OnlyFans—which have served as platforms to advertise trafficked girls to potential buyers. “The ads exploded within the first three months of the border being open. We started noticing new sites and ads in Spanish,” Lisa said. “That was very few before. Then sites dedicated to Latino girls popped up everywhere.” Lisa said the ads are increasingly in Spanish, unlike in years past, The Free Press reported. She said that more than 90% of these advertisements now are for migrant girls. When President Joe Biden entered office in January 2021, he immediately worked to undo the border enforcement policies of the Trump administration, according to an analysis by the Migration Policy Institute. The Biden-Harris administration took 296 executive actions in its first year, with 89 of them specifically reversing or beginning the process of undoing President Donald Trump’s immigration policies. Biden went on to shutter other major Trump-Pence administration border enforcement initiatives, such as the “Remain in Mexico” policy, construction of a border wall, and the Title 42 public health order during the COVID-19 pandemic. What followed was a major increase in illegal immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border, according to data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection. More than 7 million migrants attempting to illegally cross the southern border have been apprehended by Border Patrol agents, including hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied minors. Federal immigration agencies have encountered nearly half a million unaccompanied alien children at the U.S.-Mexico border since Biden entered office, according to Rep. Lance Gooden, R-Texas, who has demanded that the Department of Homeland Security provide answers on the whereabouts and safety of these children. The Office of Refugee Resettlement, part of the Department of Health and Human Services, has lost track of over 85,000 UACs in the U.S., and hundreds of thousands of other migrant children could be at risk of exploitation as the government is unable to properly track them, Gooden said. “Human trafficking has swollen into a multibillion-dollar industry further enabled by the current administration’s lax border policies,” Gooden wrote to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas last month, a copy of which was first obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. “Drug cartels, human traffickers, and smugglers are further incentivized by the policies of this administration to use UACs to easily slip across the border undetected.” HHS’ Office on Trafficking in Persons provides an array of benefits to individuals who have escaped human trafficking, with authorities sending a previously trafficked adult or minor an eligibility letter when approved. The number of child eligibility letters rose dramatically under the Biden-Harris administration, from 672 letters in 2020 to 1,143 the next year and peaking in 2022 at 2,226 letters. The Office of Refugee Resettlement is tasked with sending fingerprints of non-family sponsors to the FBI to confirm whether they have a criminal record or history of child abuse, according to The Free Press. However, when the HHS inspector general conducted a study earlier this year of hundreds of randomly chosen minors to confirm whether a sponsor had been properly vetted, the office concluded that nearly 20% of the children were handed over to sponsors before the background checks were completed, meaning that these migrant children could’ve been placed with criminals. “If I wanted to, I could order a girl within 15 minutes,” Lisa told The Free Press, speaking of the sex- trafficking situation. “It’s that easy.” The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Originally published by the Daily Caller News Foundation The post Sex Trafficking of Migrant Girls Exploded Under Biden-Harris Admin, Expert Says appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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It’s beyond time for an open letter to all the professional victims and virtue signalers who dominate our culture. I would start it like this: Dear media pundits, politicians, pop-stars, the P-Diddy types, you overpaid “academic” types, the 20 year old he-shes and  “whores” for Hamas who have all appointed yourselves as our moral leaders… Your constant lecturing and desperate search for oppression say more about your pathetic victimhood feitsh and guilt complex than it does about an entire society of people you think owes you something. Listen to the full letter in this week’s episode of MRCTV's Woke of the Weak: Sincerely,  Your host, Justine Brooke Murray and all other Americans who are sick of the Left’s divisive crap. 

How far does your head need to be buried in the sand to convince yourself that Bidenomics has been absolved of all the disaster it wrought on the U.S. economy? Only New York Times economics pseudo-savant Paul Krugman appears to know. Krugman's desperate attempts to rewrite the pathetic story of Bidenomics continues to get worse with each new column he spits out on The Times’s homepage. “All the Good Economic News Vindicates Bidenomics,” read Krugman’s latest drivel-laced headline. “It’s hard to overstate just how good recent economic numbers have been,” pointing to a small string of meaningless anecdotes that get obliterated in context, especially in light of the aftermath of the blistering inflation crisis Americans have wrestled with for years under President Joe Biden. Krugman asked his readers if his uncontextualized view of Biden’s supposedly “solid” jobs “growth,” so-called “falling inflation” and low unemployment rate “vindicate Bidenomics?” In Krugman’s view, “I would say yes — but not quite the way you might imagine.” Krugman’s new spin not only gaslights on the true, precarious state of Biden’s economy, but he also claims that Biden’s policies aren’t necessarily the cause of the mirage of success he’s cheering for: But if President Biden’s policies weren’t the main cause of low unemployment and inflation, why do I say they were vindicated? Because our success at getting to the good place where we are right now shows that progressive economic policies are, in fact, feasible. Huh? Somebody please make it make sense!  Krugman’s assertion that inflation is “falling” is grossly misleading given that prices haven’t gone down. In fact, consumer prices are a whopping 20 percent higher than they were since Biden took office, and still increasing, albeit at a slower rate, according to Heritage Foundation economist E.J. Antoni. In fact, wrote Antoni in a post on X, “many consumer staples are up 30% to 40% - or more.”  On jobs, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce released a Sept. 27 analysis sounding the alarm on “America’s labor shortage.” According to the analysis, “Even if every unemployed worker were to fill an open job within their respective industry, there would still be millions of unfilled job positions, highlighting the widespread labor shortage.” In August, Antoni confirmed to MRC Business that “[o]ver 5 million Americans are still missing from the labor force compared to pre-pandemic.”  Prices overall have risen 20% since Jan '21, according to the CPI, but many consumer staples are up 30% to 40% - or more: pic.twitter.com/n2Vx3g0EAx — E.J. Antoni, Ph.D. (@RealEJAntoni) October 12, 2024 But there is a laundry list of other mitigating factors that undercut Krugman’s starry-eyed euphoria about the Biden economy. The Ascent reported Oct. 8 that 63 percent of U.S. employees can’t afford a $500 emergency expense. In addition, “76% of employees don't have enough savings to cover one month of their expenses” and “Over one-third of employees earning $100,000 or more live paycheck to paycheck.” Another Sept. 25 analysis by the Financial Health Network determined that “the majority of Americans are not financially healthy, with expenses outpacing income, little wiggle room to protect against financial shocks, and diminished hope for the future.” But Krugman, clearly high on his own unbreakable ego, had the audacity to lecture critics of giving dire predictions about the economy that, in his view, haven’t panned out, despite the fact that he’s the same person who spent months falsely lecturing the country that the inflation crisis was transitory: In other words, many of those dire predictions about the economy should be seen as ideological, or just cynical assertions that if you try to protect the environment and help families and important industries — as opposed to, say, cutting taxes on the rich — you’ll wreck the economy. Looks like Krugman just happened to mind-wipe the past three and a half years of the Biden policy-induced economic disaster from his memory’s data bank. It’s difficult to find a media talking head more disconnected from economic reality than Krugman, who spent America’s bout with inflation cushioned on top of a $5 million net worth, according to Celebrity Net Worth.  American Enterprise Institute fellows Danielle Pletka and Marc A. Thiessen were more forthcoming about the enormous struggles facing Americans under Bidenomics: [W]hile inflation may be lower today than it was three years ago, its compounding effects mean that prices are still sky-high. On top of that, Americans recently hit a record high of over a trillion dollars in credit card debt. In short, it doesn’t take a PhD to understand that Americans are hurting. It also doesn’t take a PhD to conclude that Krugman is about as much of a serious economist as a hammerhead shark is a serious vegan. Conservatives are under attack. Contact The New York Times at 1 (800) 698-4637 and demand it distance itself from Krugman’s terrible economic takes.  

Although NBC News is a card-carrying member of the Regime Media in good standing, from time to time they will attempt to commit random acts of journalism- more reliably so than their Regime counterparts. Case in point, their reporting on the latest developments regarding the foiled ISIS-K Election Day attack. Here is the brief in its entirety as seen on NBC Nightly News on Tuesday, October 16th, 2024: LESTER HOLT: New details tonight about the Afghan suspect arrested in the U.S. for an alleged terror plot on Election Day. Tom Winter is here. Tom, what do officials know about this? TOM WINTER: Well, Lester, an Afghan man arrested by the FBI here in the U.S. last week was plotting an Election Day attack directed by ISIS-K, the ISIS branch based in Afghanistan, according to two U.S. officials. Nasir Tawhedi was allegedly going to commit a mass shooting. He has yet to enter a plea. This is significant because most would-be attackers over the past ten years have been self-radicalized so-called lone wolves. Now the same group behind the attack that killed 130 near Moscow is believed to be responsible for planning an attack on our Election Day, officials say. The U.S. has been successful in identifying recent terror plots including an ISIS-inspired plot against a Taylor Swift concert this summer. Lester. HOLT: All right, Tom Winter. Thanks.  More details beyond the brief per NBC News: Tawhedi had worked as a security guard for the CIA in Afghanistan, two sources with knowledge of the matter told NBC News last week. A month after the U.S. withdrew from Afghanistan, he arrived in the U.S. in September 2021 on a special immigrant visa, court documents said. Tawhedi had passed two rounds of vetting — as every Afghan resettled in the U.S. undergoes a rigorous screening and vetting process regardless of which agency they previously worked with — and no derogatory information was detected, a senior administration official familiar with the details previously told NBC News. Tawhedi’s mother, who lives in Afghanistan, is believed to be an ISIS sympathizer, two U.S. officials said.  There does, though, appear to be some conflict with the reporting on Tawhedi’s vetting. Perhaps this explains the rest of the media’s reluctancy to cover the story. Reports of an unvetted Afghan national conspiring with ISIS-K (the same people behind the horrific Abbey Gate attack that left 13 service members dead and maimed many others) would be catastrophic for the Regime. Per Fox News Senior White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich: The Biden-Harris administration now admits that an Afghan national accused of plotting an election day terror attack did not undergo certain vetting they previously claimed he passed. Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi was never vetted or approved by the State Department for special immigrant (SIV) status, despite officials from other agencies claiming that he cleared that stringent process.  Additionally, sources familiar with the investigation tell FOX that Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi was not well known to the US government when the administration facilitated his departure to the U.S., despite his security role with the CIA in Afghanistan. FOX has learned Tawhedi was employed as a local guard outside the base perimeter and he would not have been among the most thoroughly vetted U.S. partners. The news upends claims officials made last week that Tawhedi was vetted three times: 1) to work for the CIA in Afghanistan 2) to come to the U.S. on DHS humanitarian parole during the withdrawal, and 3) when he was approved for special immigrant (SIV) status after arriving in the U.S. Officials now acknowledge Tawhedi was never vetted or approved for special immigrant (SIV) status, a thorough State Department process which can take years to complete. The State Department has maintained all along it had no role in Tawhedi’s refugee status, despite what a DHS case agent told investigators -- leading to its inaccurate mention in the DOJ criminal complaint. NBC deserves credit for reporting the story, which the rest of the Regime outlets avoided altogether. But the details as reported by Heinrich are terrifying, and merit broader coverage. As is the case with many stories not reported over the course of the last three and half years, the easiest standard to apply remains “what of Trump?” What if a dangerous terrorist were allowed into the country unvetted (or at least with conflicting reports of vetting) under the Trump Administration? The question is NOT whether or not it would be covered, but rather, how many A-block minutes would the story garner and over how many days, especially three weeks from a presidential election? You may find, dear reader, that there is a (D)ifference as to how such things are covered.  P.S: Per the great Sultan Knish, the failed border deal may would have legalized this potential ISIS-K terrorist, and many others: Operation Allies Welcome brought huge numbers of Afghans here were allowed to go to the airport by the Taliban The Biden Harris administration refuses to deport them and keeps trying to legalize them The so-called bipartisan immigration deal would have legalized all the Afghans https://t.co/YydPTEXBkV — Daniel Greenfield - "Hang Together or Separately" (@Sultanknish) October 16, 2024