{"id":18241,"date":"2024-09-24T11:04:57","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T11:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/notaninvasion.com\/?p=18241"},"modified":"2024-09-24T11:05:10","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T11:05:10","slug":"kids-as-young-at-8-are-drugged-and-trafficked-into-the-us-by-smugglers-posing-as-their-parents-border-patrol-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notaninvasion.com\/?p=18241","title":{"rendered":"Kids as young at 8 are drugged and trafficked into the US by smugglers posing as their parents, Border Patrol warns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Border Patrol agents are warning that kids as young as 8 are being<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/07\/18\/mexico-intercepts-over-500-migrants-some-forcibly-drugged\/\">&nbsp;drugged and smuggled into the US<\/a>&nbsp;by people traffickers posing as their parents or family members \u2014 and nobody knows how common the horrifying practice is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authorities have rescued children caught up in two different instances of such smuggling in recent weeks \u2014 including one instance where the alleged traffickers had birth certificates for multiple kids who they weren\u2019t related to, according to the Border Patrol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Border Patrol sources have told The Post they\u2019ve observed increasing numbers of smugglers posing as family units in order to \u201crecycle\u201d children.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"vlp-link-container vlp-layout-basic wp-block-visual-link-preview-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/09\/24\/us-news\/kids-are-being-drugged-and-trafficked-into-the-us-border-patrol\/\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"Kids as young at 8 are drugged and trafficked into the US by smugglers posing as their parents, Border Patrol warns\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-side\"><div class=\"vlp-block-2 vlp-link-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/09\/u-s-border-patrol-chief-90259867.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" style=\"max-width: 150px; max-height: 150px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-main\"><div class=\"vlp-block-0 vlp-link-title\">Kids as young at 8 are drugged and trafficked into the US by smugglers posing as their parents, Border Patrol warns<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-1 vlp-link-summary\">Authorities say it\u2019s not clear what is happening to the children once they are smuggled into the US \u2014 but many are vulnerable to being exploited for child labor and child sex trafficking.<\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Border Patrol agents are warning that kids as young as 8 are being&nbsp;drugged and smuggled into the US&nbsp;by people traffickers posing as their parents or family members \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9796,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-domestic-enemy","category-globalists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notaninvasion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notaninvasion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notaninvasion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notaninvasion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notaninvasion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/notaninvasion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18242,"href":"https:\/\/notaninvasion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18241\/revisions\/18242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notaninvasion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notaninvasion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notaninvasion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notaninvasion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}