During a hearing of the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, Congresswoman María Elvira Salazar ( FL-27 ) questioned the Biden Administration's Special Envoy for the Northern Triangle, Ricardo Zuniga Brown, on the Human Trafficking crisis at the Southern border and U.S. policy towards Central America.
Video of Salazar's remarks can be found HERE and a list of Congresswoman Salazar's questions on Human Trafficking and U.S. policy towards Central America are found below:
"Child Sex Trafficking is one of the fastest growing international crimes in the world and unfortunately the Southern Border is the Port of Entry. This year, the Biden Administration has apprehended 52,000 families [ at the Rio Grande ], but only 140 were DNA tested. So that means that we do not know if the adult that is accompanying that child is the father or the trafficker. And now the Administration has stopped DNA testing. The American authorities are facilitating the trafficker's ability to keep their prey. Don't you think this is embarrassing? This is a problem."
"We need to be giving incentives to those American companies that leave China and come to Central America, but you do not have 1 penny in this $ 4 billion dollar package that will do that."
"This $ 4 billion dollar proposal does not include security cooperation agreements, and if the police force cannot go-in to save their own people, do you think the NGO's are really going to invest anything [ in Central America ]? Do you know about the security cooperation agreements?"
Congresswoman Salazar represents Florida's beautiful 27th Congressional district which includes most of the City of Miami, its suburbs, and the beaches. She currently serves on the Small Business Committee and the Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Original source can be found here.
