{"id":2031752,"date":"2023-09-14T12:35:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T16:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-tim-ballard-plays-powerful-sound-of-freedom-clip-for-congress-during-testimony\/"},"modified":"2023-09-14T12:37:09","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T16:37:09","slug":"watch-tim-ballard-plays-powerful-sound-of-freedom-clip-for-congress-during-testimony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-tim-ballard-plays-powerful-sound-of-freedom-clip-for-congress-during-testimony\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Ballard showcases impactful &#8216;Sound of Freedom&#8217; clip during Congressional testimony."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Fwatch-tim-ballard-plays-powerful-sound-of-freedom-clip-for-congress-during-testimony%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=2031752&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 CIA Agent Tim Ballard Testifies Before Congress on Human Trafficking<\/h2>\n<p>Former CIA \u2062agent Tim Ballard, whose fight against human trafficking \u200dwas told in the hit film \u201cSound of \u2062Freedom,\u201d used a clip from the movie to make his point Wednesday when he testified before Congress.<\/p>\n<p>During <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TPostMillennial\/status\/1701990866351432066?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">emotional testimony<\/a> before the House\u2062 Homeland Security Committee, Ballard passionately expressed his belief that the Biden administration\u2019s border policies have failed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTragically, \u2063as a result of this administration\u2019s current\u2063 policies,\u2064 DHS and HHS have\u2062 unwittingly become a child trafficking delivery service.\u200b This must stop,\u201d he emphasized.<\/p>\n<p>Ballard began his testimony by showing a powerful clip from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-star-nfl-qb-gives-high-praise-sound-freedom-addresses-reporters-kids\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the movie<\/a> that depicted a real-life \u200dmoment he experienced while working for the Department of Homeland Security.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe horrors a child faces \u200cas\u200d a victim of human trafficking demand that we take action. A child can be \u2062sold up to 20 times a day, six days a week for ten years or\u2064 even longer, depending when the abuse \u2064began,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Tim Ballard\u2019s opening \u2064statement during hearing on \u200bBiden\u2019s border crisis: \u201cA child can be sold up to 20 times a day, six days a week for 10 years or even \u2063longer\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/V7yg9FuPHg\">pic.twitter.com\/V7yg9FuPHg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TPostMillennial\/status\/1701990866351432066?\">September 13, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Highlighting the urgency of the situation, Ballard revealed that in 2022 alone, immigration authorities encountered\u2064 over 152,000 unaccompanied minors at or near the U.S.-Mexico border, representing an all-time high.<\/p>\n<p>Ballard believes that \u200bthe need to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/mccarthy-brings-sound-freedom-directly-congress-even-jim-caviezel-tim-ballard-showed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fight human trafficking<\/a> is why\u2064 \u201cSound of Freedom\u201d resonated with audiences, sparking a national conversation on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sound-of-freedom-shines-a-light-on-horrors-of-child-sex-slavery\/\" title=\"\"Sound of Freedom\" exposes child sex slavery horrors.\">child sex slavery<\/a> and trafficking, which he describes as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/this-is-not-left-or-right-singer-jewel-defends-sound-of-freedom-amid-backlash\/\" title=\"Jewel defends 'Sound of Freedom' amidst backlash, emphasizes non-partisanship.\">fastest-growing criminal enterprise<\/a> on the planet.<\/p>\n<p>According to Ballard, traffickers \u200dexploit \u2064the southern border to bring slaves into the United States for the sex\u200d industry, as the country is one of \u200bthe highest\u2063 consumers of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-tim-ballard-plays-powerful-sound-of-freedom-clip-for-congress-during-testimony\/\" title=\"Tim Ballard showcases impactful 'Sound of Freedom' clip during Congressional testimony.\">child sex-abuse material \u200dworldwide<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ballard emphasized that the success of agents on the ground is overshadowed by\u200b poor U.S. border \u2063security and broken policies that fuel the growth of human trafficking \u2062in the country.<\/p>\n<p>He stressed the importance of physical barriers \u200don \u2062the border, sharing personal experiences\u200b where ports of entry played a crucial role in\u200b rescuing \u2063children and catching sexual predators.<\/p>\n<p>However,\u200b Ballard also recounted stories of survivors who were trafficked by cartels through unprotected areas of the\u2064 border, enduring years of abuse before escaping.<\/p>\n<p>Recent\u200c reports claiming that the government cannot\u200b locate 85,000 children released into the U.S. further\u2064 highlight the\u2063 vulnerability of unaccompanied minors to trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>During\u2062 the hearing, Republican\u200c Rep. Mark Green of Tennessee \u200casked Ballard if the catch-and-release policies of Secretary Mayorkas\u2063 facilitate human trafficking,\u2064 to which Ballard responded affirmatively.<\/p>\n<p>Ballard believes that it is time \u200bto put politics aside and take immediate action to secure the border and end policies\u200d that put innocent children at risk.<\/p>\n<p>He concluded his testimony by expressing hope that a unified spirit against \u200devil can bring an end to human trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-tim-ballard-plays-powerful-sound-freedom-clip-congress-testimony\/\">The Western Journal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>, Tim Ballard, a former CIA agent known for his fight against human trafficking, utilized a scene from the film &#8220;Sound of Freedom&#8221; to emphasize his point during his testimony before Congress. Speaking before the House Homeland Security Committee, Ballard expressed his belief that the border policies implemented by the Biden administration have been unsuccessful, a tragic outcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":2031753,"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":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2031752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"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\/2031752","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2031752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2031753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2031752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2031752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2031752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}