“We don’t get sued by traffickers.”
QUICK FACTS:
- A whistleblower from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) revealed to Project Veritas that taxpayer dollars are being used to “put children in the hands of criminals.”
- Tara Lee Rodas gathered this information while working with HHS and argued that government workers give children to traffickers because they “don’t get sued by traffickers.”
- One female migrant child who was interviewed said, “An aunt [sponsored me], but she kicked me out of her house. She was pimping me and I didn’t like that. She would pimp me to men.”
FROM THE WHISTLEBLOWER:
- Rodas detailed how the department works, saying, “The tax dollars of people who are listening [to my testimony to Project Veritas] are paying to put children in the hands of criminals.”
- “Our sponsors typically are not citizens. They’re not permanent residents. They don’t have a legal presence,” the government official went on. “The sponsor can hold up an ‘Order of Deportation’ to a [migrant] child and say, ‘This is your Order of Deportation. If you do not do what I say, when I say, I’m going to call ICE on you myself.’ We are paying to put children in the hands of criminals.”
- “I said [to the command center executives], ‘We’re getting ready to send another child [to Austin, Texas],’ and they said, ‘Tara, I think you need to understand that we only get sued if we keep kids in care too long. We don’t get sued by traffickers. Are you clear? We don’t get sued by traffickers.’ So, that was the answer of the United States federal government… HHS did not want this information to get out.”
- “They knew I had made protected disclosures and they retaliated against me as a whistleblower and had me kicked off the site so I could no longer research the cases.”
BACKGROUND:
- In October, officials in Arizona arrested 16 suspects who were connected with an alleged child human trafficking ring, American Faith previously reported.
- The suspects were found when detectives posed as minors online, speaking to suspects, leading to information that facilitated the arrests.
