{"id":1242363,"date":"2022-01-26T09:22:36","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T14:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1242363"},"modified":"2022-01-26T09:22:45","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T14:22:45","slug":"kamala-harris-blames-coronavirus-for-human-trafficking-surge-as-smugglers-enjoy-open-border-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kamala-harris-blames-coronavirus-for-human-trafficking-surge-as-smugglers-enjoy-open-border-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"Kamala Harris Blames Coronavirus for Human Trafficking Surge as Smugglers Enjoy Open Border Policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkamala-harris-blames-coronavirus-for-human-trafficking-surge-as-smugglers-enjoy-open-border-policies%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1242363&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday condemned human trafficking even as more criminals and smugglers benefit from President Joe Biden\u2019s open border policies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrafficking is an extremely heinous and profitable business,\u201d Harris noted in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2022\/01\/25\/remarks-by-vice-president-harris-at-the-presidents-interagency-task-force-to-monitor-and-combat-trafficking-in-persons\/\">speech<\/a> at a video set across the street from the White House in the Executive Office Building.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Harris noted an estimated 25 million people were victims of human trafficking, enriching global criminals by $150 billion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s be clear: When we\u2019re talking about human trafficking, we are talking about some human beings who are essentially buying and selling other human beings,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Former border security officials warn Biden\u2019s open border policies only increase human trafficking, as criminals take advantage of the president\u2019s willingness to apprehend and release <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/border\/2022\/01\/24\/migrant-apprehensions-in-december-jump-139-percent-over-prior-year\/\">record<\/a> numbers of migrants into the United States.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_16921790\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/AP_21176575087480.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16921790\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/AP_21176575087480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>As Vice President Kamala Harris arrives to tour the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Central Processing Center, Friday, June 25, 2021, in El Paso, Texas, people rally outside the facility. (AP Photo\/Jacquelyn Martin)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWhen you increase the number of people being smuggled, the increase in trafficking goes along with that, so if they\u2019re really, really serious not just about addressing and reacting to trafficking if they\u2019re really serious about trying to prevent it, they\u2019d secure our borders,\u201d former acting Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Mark Morgan said in a December <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/former-dhs-officials-border-crisis-leading-increase-human-trafficking\">interview<\/a> with Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>But Harris blamed the coronavirus for an increase in human trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExperts suggest that the number of people at risk has also grown during COVID-19,\u201d she said. \u201cSo we must address, with a sense of urgency, what is happening in our own backyard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harris even acknowledged forced labor from human traffickers was hurting American workers.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kamala Harris was tasked with getting the Biden border crisis under control. Instead, she hasn&#8217;t done the work and the crisis continues unabated. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PumolOfzMH\">https:\/\/t.co\/PumolOfzMH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1393655883431882759?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 15, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt undermines our own supply chain, displacing American workers, driving down American wages, and creating an unlevel playing field for responsible American businesses,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>She called on all businesses and political leaders to unite to stamp out human trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat was true then is true now: It will take all of us to address human trafficking,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday condemned human trafficking even as more criminals and smugglers benefit from President Joe Biden\u2019s open border policies. \u201cTrafficking is an extremely heinous and profitable &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1242363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1242363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1242363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1242363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1242363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}