Human trafficking, sex trafficking ring, and get justice for these women and girls that have suffered. they re victims. they re survivors of these sex trafficking rings. sean: do you know anything about whether the reports of potential videotapes of famous people involved with these young women are actually real? we are aware that the fbi has video footage of the coming and going from the epstein residences. that is footage that we would like to get. as i ve said many times, this is not about celebrity. this is about criminal activity. we need to know who was associated and affiliated with jeffrey epstein. beginning to get this information so law enforcement can break apart the sex trafficking rings. this is what we re trying to do. i m the top republican on the human rights subcommittee.
Upward of $150 billion a year. this is modern day slavery. there are women and children that need this protection. this is not about celebrity. it is about criminal activity. it is getting to the bottom of what is going on and seeing who was affiliated and associated with jeffrey epstein. so we break these sex trafficking rings. sean: all right, senator, we ll stay on it. i promise. more hannity from our new home, the free state of florida, as we continue.
Groups. it is heartbreaking. what we do know is that the humanitarian crisis doesn t stay here on the southern border. the drugs, the human trafficking, the gangs, the sex trafficking, the crime in our cities, the drugs that are in our communities, it is causing a humanitarian crisis in our country also. you think about these precious individuals who come with us and we ll take you to america, things will be great the cartels tell them and they end up in the gangs or trafficking gangs and sex trafficking rings. these parents never see their children again. and for anybody to say that this is compassionate what is happening on this border, that is not accurate at all.
That s a nearly $15 billion business. people are the product. women and girls and children put into sex trafficking rings. what we re hearing, the stories we re hearing, meeting with people that have survived this human trafficking, talking to people that are working on this issue, working with the border patrol and texas dps at the national security implications of this, harris, last quarter, the first quarter of 2022 here in the del rio sector they apprehended 143 convicted criminals. they have been con faconvicted u.s. of crimes. they were deported. went back to mexico, they got the message from the cartels the border is open, if you want to get back, now is the time. so they are trying to come back into the country.
This morning, harris, you don t hear these mayors say we re concerned for what these individuals are being exposed to through the cartels, the drugs, the sex trafficking rings, the abuse of these women and children. the humanitarian crisis and what is happening to these people who thought they were going to get safe passage to the united states, this is something that should cause the administration to say shut this border down now. let s do this in a more humane way and work through the legal immigration process. harris: listening to you say that, it is a really, really big hole coming from the left on this issue, that they don t talk about what the journey is like to get here.