slaughter houses and restaurants to pay debtses to smugglers and traffickers. today they will call a hotline to say they are being abused, neglected and trafficked. it is argued the u.s. has become a middle man in a child trafficking operation by bad actors seeking to profit off the lives of children. brooke singman has more on what we will see today. brooke: when child migrants are found, they are transported to health and human services. the volume of unaccompanied children at the southern border has surged over the past two years with 70,000 this fiscal year. today s whistleblower testimony is expected to reveal how the surge is leading to explosive growth in child labor and the biden administration is ignoring the warning signs. one witness, an hhs whistleblower will testify i thought i was placing children in loving homes and instead found children are being trafficked through network that begins with being smuggled to the u.s. border and the child is delivered to a sp
this will put pressure on the children and the teachers and on the school systems and another thing i want to point out, a lot of kids coming with parents or so-called parents, do not have the same lifestyle our american children have. brooke: the city of el paso will declare a state of emergency before the title 42 expiration date next month. no mention of el paso or the southern border in president biden s announcement yesterday. todd: horrific. bring in the texas policy foundation. robert, how can any member of the biden administration, responsible for this horrific border policy, who may be a parent, how can that person sleep at night knowing this is being done to children? good morning. it is horrifying.