Chad Wolf: Is the Federal Government Facilitating Child Trafficking?
American Thought Leaders
The Epoch Times
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🗓️ 3 April 2024
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
“We’ve seen about 400,000 individuals being paroled into the United States … This is a historic abuse of the parole system,” says Chad Wolf, former Acting Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security and now executive director of the America First Policy Institute.
What is the parole system and what is it meant for?
What are the root causes of the crisis on the Southern border? How are current policies exacerbating it? And how are cartels exploiting the crisis?
“We’re approaching about 500,000 unaccompanied children that have been trafficked across that border,” Mr. Wolf says. They have to pay the cartels or work off the debt when they get to America, he says. And the Biden administration did away with background checks and vetting of sponsors in America for such unaccompanied minors.
“It’s almost as though the federal government is the last link in that human smuggling chain. They’re facilitating that child going to a sponsor—and not knowing who that sponsor is. Are we putting that child in harm’s way or not?”
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| 0:00.0 | We're approaching about 500,000 unaccompanied children that have been trafficked across that border. |
| 0:05.3 | It's almost as though the federal government is the last link in that human smuggling chain. |
| 0:10.0 | They're facilitating that child going to a sponsor and not knowing who that sponsor is. |
| 0:15.2 | In this episode I sit down with Chadwell, former acting secretary of the Department of Homeland |
| 0:20.0 | Security and now executive director of the America First Policy Institute. |
| 0:24.3 | In a little over three years we've apprehended about 350 known or suspected |
| 0:29.0 | terrorist on terror watch list. |
| 0:31.2 | What are the root causes of the border crisis? Billions of dollars |
| 0:34.5 | has flowed from the federal government. They're now funding these |
| 0:37.0 | organizations to help shelter, transport, and in many cases provide |
| 0:41.5 | attorneys. |
| 0:43.0 | And what is the parole system? |
| 0:45.0 | And how is it being taken advantage of? |
| 0:48.0 | We've seen about 400,000 individuals being paroled into the United States. |
| 0:52.0 | This is a historic abuse of the parole system. |
| 0:55.0 | This is American Thought Leaders and I'm Yanya Kelleck. |
| 0:58.0 | Chad Wolf, so good to have you back on American thought leaders. Yeah, it's good to be here. Thanks for the invitation. |
| 1:06.0 | Well, when we interviewed last, the border situation was very different. |
| 1:11.0 | Yeah. And I guess, why don't we start here? |
| 1:14.5 | What did it look like then and how does that compare to now at the time of filming? |
| 1:18.9 | Well I would actually probably go back all the way to 2019. |
| 1:22.4 | 2020 was obviously COVID, |
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