2-year-old crosses border alone seeking parents in US, heartbreaking video from Texas DPS shows



The Texas Department of Public Safety shared heartbreaking videos on Sunday showing dozens of unaccompanied children who had recently crossed the southern border into the United States.

Among the group of 60 children was a 2-year-old girl who told law enforcement officers that she had journeyed alone and was hoping to be reunited with her parents in the U.S. In the video, the child clutched a piece of paper, which she extended toward the officers. Inscribed on the note was a name and phone number.

'Regardless of political views, it is unacceptable for any child to be exposed to dangerous criminal trafficking networks.'

An officer asked the child, "Did you come by yourself?"

She nodded her head in the affirmative.

"How old are you?" the officer inquired.

The child held up a couple of fingers and responded, "Two."

When asked where she was going, she replied, "With my mom and dad," who she stated were in the U.S.

The heart-wrenching video was shared by Texas DPS Lt. Chris Olivarez, who also posted two other clips showing unaccompanied minors lined up near the southern border, presumably while awaiting processing. Going down the rows, the children shared their age, country of origin, and their intended destination in the U.S.

Olivarez posted photographs of several "special interest immigrants" who appeared to arrive with the group of children.

He wrote on X, "This morning, @TxDPS encountered a group of 211 illegal immigrants in Maverick County. Among the group were 60 unaccompanied children/minors ages 2 - 17 and 6 special interest immigrants from Mali & Angola."

"This is a stark example of the precarious journey these children make from their home country & how criminal organizations traffic these children across the southern border & further into the interior," Olivarez continued. "Regardless of political views, it is unacceptable for any child to be exposed to dangerous criminal trafficking networks."

He explained that "hundreds of thousands" of children have gone missing during their journeys to the U.S., noting that "no one [is] ensuring the safety & security of these children except for the men & women who are on the frontlines daily."

"Despite the criticism over the years, the reality is that many children are exploited & trafficked, never to be heard from again," he added.

Texas DPS has rescued more than 900 children as a part of Governor Greg Abbott's Operation Lone Star, Olivarez said.

According to Customs and Border Protection data, more than 110,000 unaccompanied minors crossed the border in fiscal year 2024.

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Arizona sends clear message on illegal immigration, child sex trafficking in major landslide decisions



As of Wednesday afternoon, Arizona’s final election results were still pending, yet two immigration and crime-related ballot measures had already secured resounding victories — propositions 313 and 314.

Prop 313 increases the penalties for convicted child sex traffickers, requiring a mandatory minimum life sentence without the possibility of parole or release.

'Ignore the gaslighting.'

Currently, under Arizona law, those convicted of sex trafficking a child under 15 years old face a minimum of seven years in prison.

With only 59% of Arizona's ballot tallied, the prop passed with more than 1.3 million votes, 63.7%.

Republican state Sen. Shawnna Bolick urged voters to support the measure and "send a powerful message: Arizona's children are not for sale."

"Every two minutes a child from the United States is trafficked for the sole purpose of human exploitation. According to the Arizona Attorney General's Office, the average age of entry into sex trafficking is 14 years old. Traffickers steal our children as young as five years old to sell them into a life of misery and despair," Bolick wrote. "Please join me in saving our most precious resource by being on the side of saving children."

Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb and Senate candidate Kari Lake also called for voters to support the prop.

Arizonans also approved Prop 314, which empowers state and local law enforcement to arrest illegal immigrants entering in between ports of entry. Furthermore, this measure allows state judges to issue deportation orders.

Additionally, the measure makes it a low-level felony to provide false information or documents for employment or public benefits. It also elevates the sale of fentanyl to a class 2 felony when such sales lead to a fatality.

Prop 314 is modeled after Texas' Senate Bill 4, which is currently tied up in the courts. Arizona's law will become active only if and when Texas' bill is declared constitutional by the Supreme Court.

Again, with Arizona's reporting only roughly halfway complete, the measure received more than 1.3 million votes, 62.8%.

Arizona state Sen. John Kavanagh, a co-sponsor of the prop, said, "We need Prop 314. The border is in chaos."

Brook Doty, chairman of the LD17 Republicans, urged voters to pass Prop 314.

"Ignore the gaslighting and vote yes," Doty declared. "Until the federal government decides to prioritize Americans over the needs of the rest of the world, Arizona must shoulder this burden to protect its own citizens."

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Traffickers pose as parents, drug children to ‘avoid detection’ while smuggling minors into US: Border Patrol



Customs and Border Protection agents reported two recent instances in which children were rescued after being drugged by traffickers who were attempting to smuggle them into the United States.

Executive Assistant Office of Field Operations Commissioner Diane Sabatino posted a video on social media on Thursday, announcing that Border Patrol agents in San Luis, Arizona, arrested Marlen Contreras-Lopez, a 28-year-old U.S. citizen and Arizona resident.

'Sometimes we encounter criminal actions so horrendous they defy human decency.'

When stopped at the border on August 29, Contreras-Lopez presented officers with birth certificates for two sleeping children, 8 and 11 years old, in her vehicle. She claimed that the minors were family members.

During the initial inspection with Border Patrol agents, Contreras-Lopez was unable to awaken the children, so she was referred to a secondary inspection, where she continued to “have difficulty waking the children.”

According to the officers who conducted the inspection, the children remained “extremely groggy.”

Court records obtained by the New York Post stated that one of the children had to be carried and the other “struggled to walk.”

While interviewing the minors, agents reportedly discovered that they were not related to Contreras-Lopez. While the birth certificates were legitimate, they apparently did not belong to the children, who were Mexican citizens.

“The children indicated to CBP officers that they were provided sleep aids in order to avoid detection,” Sabatino said.

According to the court documents, one of the children informed the officers that the other child was her brother and that they had taken a bus from their hometown in Mexico to the border town of San Luis Rio Colorado, where Contreras-Lopez had picked them up, the Post reported. The girl reportedly told agents that their mother was still in Mexico and that they were being taken to their mother’s boyfriend in the U.S.

The children were turned over to Mexican authorities.

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Gregory Bovino, the Border Patrol chief of California’s El Centro sector, told the Post about a separate similar incident that occurred within the past few weeks in which Border Patrol agents in California rescued a child who had been “heavily dosed with sleep aids to prevent him from talking” to law enforcement agents.

Bovino explained that officers discovered that the smugglers in that case were in possession of birth certificates for more children to whom they were not related.

“Sometimes we encounter criminal actions so horrendous they defy human decency,” Bovino told the Post.

In 2019, former President Donald Trump launched a rapid DNA testing pilot program at the southern border to further deter traffickers from smuggling children. The process involved cheek swabs that took approximately 90 minutes to obtain results. Within the initial three-day trial run, the program determined that 30% of illegal aliens arriving at the border with children they claimed were theirs were, in fact, not related. They were also ruled out as stepparents or adoptive parents. When the Biden-Harris administration took office, it ended the program.

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Former Santa Claus impersonator accused of sexually abusing girls as young as 5



A 78-year-old former Santa Claus impersonator is accused of sexually abusing girls as young as 5 years old and faces 13 counts of child abuse, according to authorities in North Carolina.

Bevier Hasbrouck Sleight III was arrested and charged with aggravated sexual abuse, abusive sexual contact, offensive touching, and contributing to the delinquency of a minor on Aug. 29.

'I'm just amazed and shocked.'

Law&Crime reported that Sleight sexually abused two girls between March 2023 and March 2024. Sleight performed oral sex and digitally penetrated the girls aged 5 and 6, according to the criminal complaint.

Court records said the alleged crimes took place at Sleight's home, which is less than a mile from Santa’s Land Fun Park and Zoo in Cherokee.

Sleight, who sports a long white beard, reportedly had portrayed Santa Claus at Santa’s Land Fun Park and Zoo.

The Christmas-themed amusement park says on its website: “Your kids will be excited to visit Santa at his own summer home in the Great Smoky Mountains. They can sit with and tell Santa all their Christmas wishes, and will receive their own ‘Good Conduct Diploma'!"

An anonymous grandparent reportedly brought a grandson to Santa's Land on Aug. 24 but is now "disgusted" because the grandparent gave the child's name and address to receive a letter from Santa Claus.

“It was just a good memory for me with my grandparents to go, and I wanted to make those memories with my grandson,” the grandparent told WLOS. “I’m like, 'Hey let’s go see Santa,' so we went into Santa’s house. He stood in there and talked to [my grandchild] for a little while."

At the end of the visit, they were asked if they wanted to purchase a letter from Santa to be sent to the boy around Christmas time. They agreed and wrote the grandchild's name and address on an envelope.

The grandparent said, “Who wouldn’t want a surprise letter from Santa Claus?”

The grandparent added, “I was disgusted, you know, and then it was just instantly, 'I want my envelope back, I don’t want him being exposed to my grandson's address.' It’s disgusting, it sickens me, and to know that he’s doing this to young children who are right around my grandson's age.”

Sleight’s arrest for child sex crimes floored local residents.

“I'm just amazed and shocked. I would have never thought that,” neighbor Kim Lambert told WLOS. “I have a lot of grandchildren. So, it’s very shocking. He’s just really always been a super nice person.”

Santa's Land Fun Park and Zoo confirmed to the New York Post that Sleight no longer works there. However, the amusement park did not provide Sleight's final date of employment.

A spokesperson at Santa's Land told WOLS the park has no comment at this time.

WLOS reported there was a connection between Sleight and a woman who recently was arrested for an alleged violent act of child abuse.

On June 5, Caroline Roland was arrested and charged with 11 counts, including child abuse, maiming, assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, and inflicting serious injury.

Roland severely injured a 5-year-old girl by smashing the child’s hands on a table, causing “multiple broken bones to each hand on multiple different digits,” according to court documents obtained by WLOS.

Roland, 39, allegedly picked up the girl and threw her to the ground and repeatedly slammed her face into the floor until she stopped breathing.

The child needed CPR to be resuscitated and required an emergency craniotomy, according to the criminal complaint. The girl allegedly suffered a brain hemorrhage and additional injuries were found all over her body at the hospital.

According to WLOS, the Cherokee Indian Police Department said Sleight was a "customer" of Roland, who allegedly ran a child trafficking ring. However, neither suspect is currently facing any trafficking-related charges.

Police told WLOS that the trafficking investigation is ongoing.

Roland remains in the Cherokee County Detention Center, and her next court date is scheduled for Oct. 23.

Police said Sleight is not out on bond, but court documents showed there is a secured bond set at $75,000 with electronic monitoring.

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Report: Biden-Harris Administration Has Lost Track Of Up To 300,000 Ilegal Alien Kids

Biden's Border Czar is going to need a bigger bag of Doritos to deal with the consequences of her big border debacle.

US mom allegedly paid to smuggle children across the border with plans to drop them off at undisclosed location: Report



A couple was recently arrested after they allegedly received money to smuggle two foreign children across the United States border and drop them off at an undisclosed address, according to Border Report.

Laura Aracely Rodriguez, a U.S. citizen and mother, was accused of trafficking two young Mexican children into the country last month. Rodriguez was accompanied by her husband, Cristian Velez Gutierrez, their daughter, and grandchild.

'The lady is driving me to be reunited with my parents.'

After crossing the border, Rodriguez was stopped by Border Patrol agents at a tactical highway checkpoint near Westmoreland, California. When asked for identification, Rodriguez provided her U.S. passport card, and Gutierrez, a legal permanent resident, handed over his green card documentation. The couple told law enforcement officers that they were on their way to a nearby shopping center.

Border Patrol agents also observed two young boys inside the vehicle, which the couple claimed were also their children. However, officers requested a secondary inspection after Gutierrez began stuttering and looking away, Border Report stated.

While conducting a more thorough inspection, the older of the two boys told Border Patrol agents, "The lady is driving me to be reunited with my parents."

When confronted, Rodriguez admitted that the boys were not her children but that she had been paid $6,000 to transport them from Mexicali, Mexico, to an undisclosed address in Indio, California, according to a complaint affidavit reviewed by Border Report. It is not clear who made the request or paid Rodriguez to smuggle the children.

Rodriguez stated that she used her children's identity documents to get the two boys across the border into California. Because the children were asleep at the time they reached the port of entry, they were not questioned by Border Patrol agents.

Gutierrez reportedly admitted to law enforcement agents that he was aware that the boys were not legally allowed to enter the U.S. He stated that he joined his wife on the journey "so that she would not be alone," according to the court records.

The couple was arrested, and Rodriguez entered a not-guilty plea on August 1. Their underage daughter was released from custody.

According to Office of Refugee Resettlement records obtained by Border Report, the older boy was released to "a parent or guardian" in the U.S. to serve as a witness in the case.

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Biden admin is ‘complicit’ in trafficking of unaccompanied minors: Gov’t whistleblowers



Federal government whistleblowers told senators on Tuesday that the Biden administration's Office of Refugee Resettlement, within the Department of Health and Human Services, likely placed unaccompanied minors with child traffickers, neglecting to properly vet sponsors.

Deborah White and Tara Rodas, federal employees, stated that they first discovered that the ORR was placing children in "dangerous" situations in June 2021.

'The most horrific injustice.'

After minors cross the border, Customs and Border Protection places unaccompanied children in the custody of HHS' ORR. It is the department's responsibility to find and vet sponsors to look after the minors. Its order of preference is first to try to turn the children over to parents or a legal guardian; however, according to Tuesday's testimony to the panel of senators, this rarely occurs.

"What I discovered was horrifying: children were being trafficked with billions of taxpayer dollars by a contractor failing to vet sponsors and process children safely, with government officials complicit in it," White stated. "Children were sent to addresses that were abandoned houses or nonexistent in some cases."

"In Michigan, a child was sent to an open field, even after we reported making an [sic] 911 call after hearing someone screaming for help, yet the child was still sent," White continued. "When I raised concerns about contractor failures and asked to see the contract I was told, 'You're not gonna get the contract and don't ask for it again.' So I took it upon myself to create trainings for significant incident reports of sexual abuse and for flagging trafficking, in order to equip case managers."

According to White, despite reporting her concerns, the children continued to be sent to "dangerous places."

"When we questioned documents, HHS ORR leadership said, 'You're not fake ID experts, and your job is not to investigate the sponsor. Your job is to reunify the child with the sponsor,'" White said.

Rodas told senators that the ORR did not meet with sponsors in person and noted that children were being placed with "random people."

She explained that a 16-year-old girl from Guatemala was placed with a man who claimed to be the child's brother, but it was "clear" that he was not. The female "looked drugged" and like "she was for sale" in pictures posted to the male's social media. She added that the male was "touching her inappropriately" and possessed other accounts on social media that contained child pornography.

Florida Department of Children and Families Secretary Shevaun Harris claimed that only 10% of unaccompanied minors are placed with their parents.

"It defies logic and is inhumane," Harris remarked.

Both White and Rodas claimed that the ORR and Cherokee Federal, a taxpayer-funded contractor tasked with resettling the unaccompanied children, ignored warning signs of potential trafficking operations.

White stated that Cherokee Federal staffed "several unqualified unvetted and quite frankly dangerous contractors with access to vulnerable children that did not get the appropriate support, services, or humanity they deserved after a most treacherous journey."

She added that the stories she has heard from some of the children "will haunt me for the rest of my life."

"HHS ORR leadership and the contractor allowed children to be trafficked on their watch and the taxpayers continue to fund it," White said, calling the department's program "the biggest failure in government history."

"This is the most horrific injustice against children that I have witnessed in my entire federal career," Rodas declared.

Neither HHS nor Cherokee Federal responded to a request for comment from the Post.

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'America's Most Wanted' host warns border crisis is fueling child sex trafficking: 'Incredible travesty'



"America's Most Wanted" host John Walsh recently warned that the border crisis is fueling child sex trafficking, Fox News Digital reported.

During a red-carpet event earlier this month, Walsh discussed how Mexican cartels and Central American gangs are working together to turn a profit trafficking unaccompanied minors. He explained that parents are paying criminal organizations to take their children under the guise that they will safely transport them to the U.S. to find work opportunities.

'Who took those kids? We know who took them — sex traffickers.'

"We need people battling because of what's happening at the wall," Walsh told Fox News Digital. "What's happening at the border is an incredible travesty."

"The cartels bring [children] to the border. They push them across. They get paid by the parents who think they're getting their daughter or son a job in America. They're not," Walsh explained. "They get them across the border, the cartels, then the gangs take over — MS-13, the Venezuelan gangs, violent. And those little girls and some little boys are being trafficked. They move every couple days."

"These gangs from Central America — horrible," Walsh continued. "We finally got the Homeland Security, [Alejandro] Mayorkas, to admit that they have pushed across 78,000 unaccompanied minors since November. Where did those kids go? Who took those kids? We know who took them — sex traffickers. So our work's going to be cut out big-time."

According to Customs and Border Protection data, Border Patrol agents at the southern border have processed more than 82,000 unaccompanied minors from October 2023 through May 2024.

Walsh's son and cohost, Callahan, told Fox News Digital, "America's the greatest country in the world, but our crime rates are high."

"'America's Most Wanted' gives communities and individuals a way to turn those bad guys in without having to call the cops," he stated. "Not everybody wants to call the cops. People don't want to give their name and be dragged into a courtroom."

The television series has led to 1,200 arrests and 61 child rescues. In addition to hosting the popular crime-fighting show, Walsh also cofounded the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children with his wife, Revé, after the abduction and murder of their son, Adam.

"I always believed that people would help if you showed them a way to help," Walsh told Fox News Digital. "I've caught guys in 45 countries. I say one thing, 'Don't tell me your name. Tell me where the dirtbag is. Nobody's gonna come and drag you to court. Nobody's going to follow with vengeance. No vengeance. Tell me — I don't care who you are — I'll catch him.' And that's how we've caught so many guys. So many guys. Because the public trusts me. The public worldwide. And we get those bad guys and we find those missing kids."

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Massachusetts Bill Would Allow Women to Sell Their Unborn Children

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Mom accepted money from illegal alien so he could spend time with 12-year-old daughter, whom he then attacked: Sheriff

Mom accepted money from illegal alien so he could spend time with 12-year-old daughter, whom he then attacked: Sheriff



A 12-year-old girl and her siblings have been placed into protective custody in Wisconsin after a man reportedly paid the girl's mother to spend time alone with her and then allegedly attacked her.

Just after midnight on Sunday morning, the Fond du Lac County Sheriff's Office received a call from a man in Oakfield, Wisconsin, about 70 miles northwest of Milwaukee. The caller claimed that a young girl had knocked on his door, desperate to get away from a man who been holding her captive in his vehicle.

'Joe Biden is responsible for this.'

The 12-year-old girl later reportedly told deputies that "an adult male had bound and blindfolded her and was attempting to assault her" in the vehicle when she managed to escape. Fond du Lac County Sheriff Ryan Waldschmidt praised the girl for her daring self-rescue.

"She’s a brave young lady," he said.

An investigation into the girl's claims revealed that the man is not the only one to have allegedly harmed her. Law enforcement soon learned that the girl's mother reportedly knew the suspect and may even have facilitated the opportunity for the alleged crime.

"We believe her mother actually transacted money with a male known to mom," Waldschmidt claimed. "This male paid her mother for time alone with her and then transported her out to a remote area."

The suspect is a 30- or 31-year-old Nicaraguan national in the U.S. illegally. His true identity has not yet been released, as he has used multiple aliases, but authorities confirmed that the man crossed the border from Mexico into Texas in October 2021.

"At that time he was apprehended by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents, processed at a federal facility, and released from their custody with instructions to follow per current federal immigration policy," Waldschmidt said.

On Monday, the man was arrested in Fond du Lac without incident. The girl's mother, whose immigration status is still being determined, was also arrested. Both face possible charges of sexual assault of a child, false imprisonment, child human trafficking, and failure to protect a child.

More arrests in the case are also possible. Meanwhile, the girl and her three siblings have been placed into protective custody.

Because of the immigration issues involved, some on the right believe that Joe Biden and his lax immigration policies led to such a horrific crime apparently occurring on American soil. "Joe Biden is responsible for this," tweeted Rep. Tom Tiffany, a Republican who represents a neighboring Wisconsin district.

"Biden did this," added a tweet from Trump War Room.

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