On Sunday, Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) tore into President Joe Biden, for being the driving force behind the illegal immigrant crisis at the southern border.
While speaking during an interview on “Fox News Sunday” with host Shannon Bream, Britt was asked about a story that she had told about a young girl who had been s*x trafficked by Mexican cartels, which she had discussed during her response to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech.
Britt clarified that she had been told the story by the victim herself, years after the entire ordeal. Britt had been accused of attempting to tie the story to Biden, explaining that the woman who told her the story recounted what she had experienced as a child, making it clear that she was not blaming Biden for that woman’s particular experience.
“Look, I very specifically said, this is what President Biden did during his first 100 days. Minutes after coming into office, he stopped all deportations. He halted construction of the border wall, and he said I am going to give amnesty to millions. Those types of things act as a magnet to have more and more people here,” Britt explained. “I then said in his first 100 days, he had 94 executive actions and those executive actions didn’t just create the crisis, they invited it. I then contrasted it with my first 100 days.”
Britt contrasted Biden’s first 100 days in office with her first 100 days in office, noting that she repeatedly visited the border while Biden did not.
“The truth is — and the media knows this, yet they’re not covering it — that human trafficking has gone up under President Biden,” Britt noted. “If you look back under 2018, it was a $500 million industry, human trafficking by the drug cartels. It is now a $13 billion industry. Shannon, the drug cartels are winning under this. This is a story of what is happening now at an astronomical rate. And we have to bring attention to it. We have to tell those stories. And the liberal media needs to pay attention to it because there are victims all the way coming to the border. There are victims at the border. And then there are victims all throughout our country. And to me, it is disgusting to try to silence the voice of telling the story of what it is like to be s*x trafficked when we know that that is one of the things that the drug cartels are profiting most off of.”
“I very clearly said, I spoke to a woman who told me about when she was trafficked, when she was 12,” she added. “So I didn’t say a teenager, I didn’t say a young woman, a grown woman, a woman when she was trafficked when she was 12. And so listening to her story, she is a victim’s right advocate who — who is telling this is what drug cartels are doing, this is how they’re profiting off of women. And it is disgusting. And so I am hopeful that it brings some light to it. And we can actually do something about human trafficking. And that’s what the media actually decides to cover.”
