{"id":811740,"date":"2021-09-24T23:44:02","date_gmt":"2021-09-25T03:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=811740"},"modified":"2021-09-25T09:40:20","modified_gmt":"2021-09-25T13:40:20","slug":"cruz-other-top-senators-demand-answers-to-9-questions-following-reports-of-afghan-child-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cruz-other-top-senators-demand-answers-to-9-questions-following-reports-of-afghan-child-trafficking\/","title":{"rendered":"Cruz, Other Top Senators Demand Answers To 9 Questions Following Reports Of Afghan Child Trafficking"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fcruz-other-top-senators-demand-answers-to-9-questions-following-reports-of-afghan-child-trafficking%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=811740&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/20300E10-2BC2-4BF6-ACF9-BEFF41AA81EE-scaled-1.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"e12o35pe0 css-1jo504w\" readability=\"43.390130172916\">\n<p>Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and other top U.S. senators demanded that the Biden administration answer multiple questions by the end of next week related to alleged child trafficking and sexual abuse committed by Afghan evacuees in the wake of President Joe Biden\u2019s pullout from Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz was joined by Sens. Tom Cotton (R-AR), Ron Johnson (R-WI), and Kevin Cramer (R-ND) in sending a letter to Biden centered around reports that the \u201cadministration\u2019s withdrawal from Afghanistan facilitated the transport and trafficking of child brides and other Afghan girls subject to sexual abuse by Afghan men.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The letter continued:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"8\">\n<p><em>The Associated Press reported on the basis of internal Department of State documents they obtained that \u201cU.S. officials at intake centers in the United Arab Emirates and in Wisconsin have identified numerous incidents in which Afghan girls have been presented to authorities as the \u2018wives\u2019 of much older men.\u201d Yahoo News subsequently reported on the basis of internal Department of Homeland Security documents they obtained that the dynamic suggested \u201cdesperate families trying to find ways to get their children out of the country\u201d who were exploited by Afghan men to coerce marriages and sexually abuse girls. Some of these Afghan men reportedly exploited the withdrawal process itself \u2013 and more specifically their access to the United States \u2013 to facilitate their abuse.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The letter also mentioned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9943383\/Convicted-rapist-deported-2017-arrested-Washingtons-Dulles-International-Airport.html\">reports<\/a> from late last month that a convicted rapist, who was previously deported from the U.S., managed to get on one of the evacuation flights and made it to the U.S. before being arrested at Washington Dulles International Airport.<\/p>\n<p>The letter continued:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"15\">\n<p><em>Child marriage, sexual abuse, and domestic abuse are widespread in Afghanistan but illegal in the United States, but your administration has had no policy for dealing with these issues: the State Department requested \u201curgent guidance\u201d but as late as August 27 had not received it. In any case the United States has a moral obligation to ensure that our foreign policy is not complicit in human trafficking, sexual slavery, and abuse. But just as with the crisis at the southern border, where your policies continue to abet documented instances of human trafficking and sexual abuse, your chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan appears to have facilitated horrific abuses.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The senators demanded that all relevant federal agencies investigate the reports of child trafficking and provide a full public accounting of the administration\u2019s role in \u201cevacuating offenders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The senators also demanded that the administration answer the following nine questions by the end of the month:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>How many instances of human trafficking, polygamous marriages, and \u201cchild brides\u201d have the Department of Defense, the Department of State or DHS identified?<\/li>\n<li>How many cases have there been in which the Department of Defense, Department of State, DHS or other government officials separated people due to concerns related to human trafficking, polygamous marriages, or \u201cchild brides\u201d?<\/li>\n<li>In light of statutory authority under Title 8 of the United States Code Section 1227 to remove individuals who engage in smuggling, trafficking, marriage fraud, crimes of moral turpitude, child abuse, and domestic violence, has DHS deported these offenders?<\/li>\n<li>What steps have the Department of Defense, the Department of State or DHS taken to investigate reports of human trafficking, sexual abuse, child marriages, including opportunistic marriages facilitated by the evacuation process itself, among Afghan evacuees?<\/li>\n<li>To what extent is the Department of Defense, Department of State or DHS coordinating with other agencies to deter future instances and punish past instances of human trafficking among those evacuated from Afghanistan?<\/li>\n<li>What actions has or will DHS take to address, such as through detention or deportation, the individuals who have engaged in human trafficking, polygamy, or sexual assault during the evacuations?<\/li>\n<li>What steps, if any, has the Department of Defense, Department of State or DHS taken to address child exploitation, including forced marriages and other sexual exploitation, inside transit and intake centers in the United States?<\/li>\n<li>For reports of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual abuse, where did these acts occur? What guidance or orders have been issued to military bases, in particular the Wisconsin National Guard, if they witness or receive reports of a minor being sexually assaulted or abused by another Afghan evacuee, including by those claiming to be married to the victim?<\/li>\n<li>Will DHS commit to deport individuals evacuated from Afghanistan who have violated 8 U.S.C. \u00a7 1227 by committing the following offenses: smuggling, \u00a7 1227(a)(1)(E); marriage fraud, \u00a7 1227(a)(1)(G); crimes of moral turpitude, \u00a7 1227(a)(2)(A)(i); crimes of domestic violence, stalking, and child abuse, \u00a7 1227(a)(2)(E)(i); and trafficking, \u00a7 1227(a)(2)(F)?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. 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