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82: Part 2: Jason Piccolo Blows the Whistle on Releasing Unaccompanied Migrant Children to Criminals

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Game of Crimes

True Crime

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2023

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Summary

In 2015, Jason Piccolo worked on the DHS Human Smuggling Cell to counter the illicit human smuggling trade, including the unending flow of unaccompanied migrant children. An email that showed how the U.S. government handed over 3,600 kids to verified criminals left Jason asking his leadership answers - answers he never received. The top leaders at DHS knew this and did absolutely nothing. After being stonewalled multiple times, Jason became a whistleblower and exposed how children under ten were being put in danger.


Check out Jason’s Books: Out of the Shadows: A Government Whistleblower’s Firsthand Account of How the Protection of Migrant Children Became a Political Firestorm and Unwavering | A Border Agent’s Journey: The Definitive Edition. His podcast can be found on JasonPiccolo.us.




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There's probably been about 250, maybe 260,000 more or less kids coming across a border

0:06.4

already.

0:07.4

Now I know they're kids because I was in charge of what they call the UAC database.

0:11.9

It's a database that Health and Human Services has that has like the kids has their picture,

0:18.0

their age, and their sponsor location.

0:20.0

So I was able to look and say, oh, man, like, because later on I ran, I'm like, man, these

0:23.1

are like babies, some of them are babies.

0:25.8

So at a 29,000, 3400 came back to some sort of criminal history, whether that's ranchery

0:30.3

after deportation, or it's up to sex offenses.

0:34.8

I believe one of them was a homicide and they released all these, so I go to my supervisors,

0:39.4

I'm like, well, released all these kids to criminals.

0:42.6

What about all the other kids, not just a spreadsheet, but all these other kids that

0:48.0

got released?

0:49.0

Are we going to go and get these kids and bring them back into a safe haven?

0:53.4

And they fell in deaf ears and it kept falling in deaf ears.

0:56.9

Welcome to Game of Crimes.

1:16.2

When you were doing drug cases in San Diego, what was the priority for the ice office then?

1:22.1

What drugs was it?

1:23.3

Now money, money and counterfeit, Gucci bags, cigarettes, cigarettes.

1:32.8

We did a wire case in San Diego for months and months and months on cigarettes.

1:39.3

And they never even end up, I don't even think they even got a conviction out of it because

1:42.9

it was taxes.

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