Buttigieg calls out Katie Britt's misleading use of sex trafficking victim's story to attack Biden
Source: ABC News
March 10, 2024, 9:37 AM
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Sunday called out Alabama Sen. Katie Britt's misleading use of an anecdote on sex trafficking to attack President Joe Biden's record on border security in her response to his State of the Union address.
"I'll leave it to her to explain the falsehoods, but I think it illustrates the bigger issue," Buttigieg told ABC "This Week" anchor George Stephanopoulos. "She's a United States senator and the United States Senate right now could be acting to help secure the southern border." He highlighted a recent bipartisan agreement on immigration changes that didn't pass the chamber as Donald Trump criticized it.
Buttigieg said the proposal included "tough compromises for all sides, something that the basis of both parties might not have loved but that would have made a real positive difference -- only for that to be killed by the chill effect that the former president put on congressional Republicans, telling them not to support anything that would represent a policy win for President Biden."
Thursday night, in delivering the official Republican response to Biden's State of the Union speech, Britt told the story of meeting a woman at the border who recounted her experience of being raped by cartels beginning when she was 12 years old. The victim has chronicled her abuse in the past, saying it happened in Mexico between 2004 and 2008 -- during George W. Bush's presidency. Britt made it appear as though Biden's actions were related to the that victim's experience.
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There are, unfortunately, many examples of human trafficking in the form of forced labor in the US.
The Great Escape: A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America Hardcover – January 24, 2023
The above book tells the story of over 200 Indian skilled welders who were tricked into paying $20K each to come to the US to repair oil rigs after Katrina. The oil companies did not want to pay US/union workers. They promised the Indian men would be housed in apartments and that there was a path to earn a green card. The US companies promised that if the men stayed in the US for a certain period of time, they would be able to bring their families here. The men were placed basically in barracks and not allowed to leave. When men would escape, the company owners would actually contact ICE to round them up and bring them back!
