Amid intense political debates surrounding migrant family separation and detention policies, counter-trafficking investigator Dr. Godfrey Garner sounds the alarm on the severe sexual exploitation threat facing vulnerable minors along transit routes.
The Predatory Cartel Pipeline
Transnational criminal networks systematically prey on unaccompanied children traveling from the Northern Triangle. False guardian claims, forged birth certificates, and fraudulent family sponsorships are frequently employed to traffic minors into commercial sex exploitation networks across the interior United States.
Garner urges federal immigration authorities to maintain rigorous DNA verification and biometric identity vetting to protect minors from being delivered into the hands of criminal syndicates.
