Well, last week, the Trump administration announced a new task force to go after and find

450,000 children in the United States and check to see if they're even still alive.

These were children that were trafficked across the U.S. border into the United States under the

Biden administration.

Our next guest has a new documentary out that just dropped today at noon.

It's called Never in America.

And what our next guest has uncovered is the world's largest government-funded child kidnapping operation.

All government-funded here in the United States.

And perhaps no one has been doing a better job of exposing this network of

child traffickers in the United States government than our next guest, Ryan Mata, who is,

of course, the documentary filmmaker behind this new explosive documentary called Never in America.

And Ryan, we want to welcome you back to the show. Thanks so much for being here.

Hey, Clayton, thanks so much for having me, man.

It's an honor to be here and I just appreciate you.

You're always the first person.

Anytime I put out a film on child trafficking, you're one of the first people to bring me on, first people to give me air time. And I just appreciate that, man. a lot of people that won't even let me come on to talk about these films. So thank you so much.

Oh, my pleasure. And I know the incredible work that you do traveling the world into

Guatemala all over the United States exposing this. And it's funny, I actually spoke to somebody yesterday who said, you know, I just, I, there was a different story, but he said, you know, I just, it's always so hard for me to like make that next leap to child trafficking. Like I can always focus on these other things, but then making any, this was a government official. He's like, and then to make that mental leap to think that our government could be doing this, he's like, I've just never ventured into that. And he's like, I know how dark it is. So he knows it exists. He's just admitting like, it's a bridge too far. Why do you think that is? You know, it's funny you said that, Clayton, because you kind of teed up literally the title of my documentary, which is never in America, because the amount of people who you tell these stories to and you talk about child trafficking, and when you start talking about the evil things that are done to these children, people go, well, that would never happen in America, right? Our government would never allow that to happen here in America.

And really, it's our government who's not only allowing it to happen, but it's our government who's facilitating it to happen.

And that was one of my biggest, I guess, the biggest moments where I just really had this like, aha, this epiphany of when I traveled for the last three years detailing and documenting the trafficking of the migrant children,

like you stated, 452,121 migrant children ages 0 to 17, arrived at our border without a parent

from 2021 to 2024. Now out of that, 452,000, our government took physical possession of all of them

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