Ex-DHS Agent: 10,000 Children Trafficked Into US as Sex Slaves Each Year

Ex-DHS Agent: 10,000 Children Trafficked Into US as Sex Slaves Each Year
A Border Patrol checkpoint on Hwy. 8 east of Yuma, Ariz., on May 25, 2018. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times
Charlotte Cuthbertson
Charlotte Cuthbertson
Senior Reporter
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About 10,000 children are smuggled into the United States every year to be sold as sex slaves, according to a former Homeland Security agent who worked in the child-trafficking unit.

“For a decade of that service, I was stationed at the border office in Calexico, California,” Timothy Ballard wrote in a Jan. 30 opinion article published on the Fox News website. “Based on my extensive experience fighting transnational crime along the southern border, I know that we should absolutely finish building the wall, for the sake of the children.”
Charlotte Cuthbertson
Charlotte Cuthbertson
Senior Reporter
Charlotte Cuthbertson is a senior reporter with The Epoch Times who primarily covers border security and the opioid crisis.
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