{"id":2030622,"date":"2023-09-13T14:02:06","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T18:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sound-of-freedoms-tim-ballard-demands-biden-find-85000-migrant-children-lost\/"},"modified":"2023-09-13T14:03:22","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T18:03:22","slug":"sound-of-freedoms-tim-ballard-demands-biden-find-85000-migrant-children-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sound-of-freedoms-tim-ballard-demands-biden-find-85000-migrant-children-lost\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Ballard of Sound of Freedom urges Biden to locate 85,000 missing migrant children."},"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%2Fsound-of-freedoms-tim-ballard-demands-biden-find-85000-migrant-children-lost%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=2030622&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--><h2>Former Federal Agent Demands\u200b Biden\u2062 Administration Find\u200d 85,000 Missing Immigrant Children<\/h2>\n<p>Tim Ballard, a former federal\u2062 agent and founder of\u200d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-facebook-is-largest-online-recruitment-tool-for-human-traffickers\/\" title=\"Report: Facebook is largest online recruitment tool for human traffickers\">anti-child trafficking organization<\/a> that inspired the hit movie \u200cSound of Freedom, made a passionate plea to the\u200d Biden administration. He demanded that\u200d they take \u200cimmediate action to locate\u2062 the\u200c 85,000 immigrant children who have gone missing after being released to sponsors.<\/p>\n<p>During his testimony before the\u2063 House Homeland Security Committee on Capitol Hill, Ballard compared the \u2064ease of taking custody of an unaccompanied child to adopting \u200da\u200d pet from a shelter. He emphasized that it is\u2064 easier for adults in the United States to claim a child\u200d released from\u200d the border than it is to adopt a needy animal.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s more difficult to \u2063adopt a cat\u200b from a shelter in the United\u2063 States than it is to go down and take one of these \u2063children out of the custody of [the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services] and claim that I\u2019m the sponsor,&#8221;\u200b said Ballard.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ballard, who \u2063recently joined the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sound-of-freedoms-tim-ballard-demands-biden-find-85000-migrant-children-lost\/\" title=\"Tim Ballard of Sound of Freedom urges Biden to locate 85,000 missing migrant children.\">anti-trafficking \u2062group<\/a>, the SPEAR Fund,\u2062 after leaving\u2063 his organization Operation\u2063 Underground Railroad, expressed his frustration with\u200b the Biden administration&#8217;s handling of the situation.\u2063 He criticized \u200ctheir decision to \u2062stop\u200b taking fingerprints and conducting \u200cthorough \u200cbackground checks on adults who come forward to \u2063care for these children.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;There&#8217;s no background checks.\u2062 There&#8217;s no fingerprinting. Why would you\u2063 afford a foreign child much less protection than you would an American child? I think it&#8217;s despicable,&#8221; Ballard said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier this year, the New York Times reported that \u200cthe government had lost contact with 1-in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-and-republicans-agree-bidens-child-trafficking-crisis-still-not-fixed\/\" title=\"Biden's child trafficking crisis remains unresolved, as both Democrats and Republicans concur.\">-4 unaccompanied immigrant children\u2063 apprehended<\/a> at the border. These\u2063 unanswered calls\u2062 amounted to approximately 85,000 children who could not\u2062 be located. \u200cThe New York Times also uncovered \u200bcases of children \u2063being forced into prostitution and \u200bforced labor, highlighting the urgent need for public awareness and action.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;A child can \u200cbe\u2063 sold up\u200b to 20 times per day,\u2063 six \u2063days a week for ten years or even longer if they \u2064are trafficked as a toddler\u200d or infant,&#8221; Ballard testified. &#8220;In\u200d one \u200ccase in particular, a young woman was brought \u2063across the border at an area where no barriers or protections\u2063 existed. Her \u200bcaptors brought her to New\u2064 York \u200dCity where once in the U.S., she was sold and raped for money up\u200c to 30-40\u2063 times\u200c a day for five years before eventually escaping.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lawmakers from both parties have\u200c been \u200bworking to address this \u2064issue.\u200b Sens.\u200b Dick \u2062Durbin and Alex Padilla pushed\u2062 HHS Secretary\u2062 Xavier\u200b Becerra to \u2062explain why warnings about unsafe situations for unaccompanied children were ignored. Additionally, Rep. \u2064Marsha\u200b Blackburn \u2063reintroduced \u200bthe End Child Trafficking Act, which\u200d would require\u200b DNA testing of each child apprehended at the border to\u2063 ensure they\u2063 are\u2063 related to the\u2062 accompanying adult.<\/p>\n<p>Ballard stressed the \u200bimportance of joint efforts from the HHS, FBI, and Department of Homeland\u200d Security to track down each\u2064 missing child. Only then can the overall issue be effectively addressed and reformed.<\/p>\n<p>The\u2064 hearing was part of a series by the House Homeland Security Committee to examine the \u2064causes and impacts of the border crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Ballard, ex-federal agent and inspiration behind Sound of Freedom, urged the Biden administration to locate 85,000 immigrant children lost by the government after being released to sponsors. Speaking at Capitol Hill, Ballard testified to the House Homeland Security Committee, emphasizing the urgency of finding these children and ensuring their safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2030623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2030622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030622","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=2030622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2030623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2030622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2030622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2030622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}