Child trafficking is a scourge most consign to the third world, but it has become a serious issue for the United States, fuelled by open borders as criminals smuggle kids into Mexico or pass them between criminal gangs within the US where they face a life of abuse. Most are never seen again.

In a world where children seem to be at risk from everyone, including billion-dollar corporations, narcissistic parents hoping to gain TikTok stardom, and radicalised teachers within their schools desperate to hand them over into a life of medical dependence, there has been some good news…

225 missing children have been recovered by the US Marshals as part of a 10-week mission that spanned 16 federal districts.

Dubbed, ‘Operation We Will Find You’, the US Marshals have been collaborating with the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children to target large groups of missing kids in the hope the criminals responsible for child trafficking rings might finally be caught. Included in these recent arrests was a Top 15 Most Wanted couple found in Mexico.

The statement put out by the US Marshals reads:

The United States Marshals Service (USMS), along with state and local agencies in 16 federal judicial districts and geographical locations across the US, led a 10-week national operation that resulted in the recovery or safe location of 225 endangered missing children, which includes runaways and those abducted by non-custodial persons.

Operation We Will Find You is a nationwide missing child operation focused on geographical areas with high clusters of critically missing children. 

With technical assistance from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), Operation We Will Find You resulted in the recovery of 169 children and the safe location of 56 children. During the operation, the US Marshals Service referred 28 cases to law enforcement agencies for further investigation of crimes such as drugs and weapons, sex trafficking, and sex offender violations. Law enforcement reported allegations of trafficking in over 40 cases the US Marshals Service assisted with. Of the cases closed, 86 per cent were endangered runaways, nearly 9 per cent were family abductions, and 5 per cent were considered otherwise missing. The youngest child recovered was six months old. Additionally, of the missing children recovered, 62 percent were recovered within seven days of the US Marshals Service assisting with the case. 

‘The US Marshals Service is fully committed to the important mission of protecting the American people, especially our most vulnerable population – our children,’ said Ronald Davis, Director of the Marshals Service. ‘The results of this operation underscore that commitment, but also highlight the necessity of these critical efforts. Our continued success can only be achieved through our collaboration with state and local law enforcement agencies, and partnership with NCMEC. Together, the USMS and NCMEC have recovered over 3,100 missing children since the passage of the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act in 2015.’

‘Operation We Will Find You is a great example of how the US Marshals Service continues to prioritise child protection,’ said NCMEC President & CEO Michelle DeLaune. ‘NCMEC is proud of our long-standing partnership with the USMS and commends them and the participating state and local agencies who helped recover the 225 endangered missing children.’

The operation was conducted from the following locations: eastern Virginia; Washington D.C.; Maryland; Massachusetts; South Carolina; New Orleans; San Antonio; Detroit; Yakima, Washington; Orlando, Florida; Los Angeles; northern Ohio; Guam; Puerto Rico; and the US Virgin Islands. 

During the operation, 42 children were found outside the city where they went missing, and 10 children were found outside of the United States in Mexico. In addition, the USMS arrested a Top 15 Most Wanted couple who fled to Mexico from Washington state with their five children, who they had taken into hiding. 

Operation We Will Find You presented the US Marshals Service with an opportunity to expand and highlight partnerships among law enforcement agencies and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to find critically missing children, and to bring more attention to the epidemic of missing children in America. 

These missing children were considered some of the most challenging recovery cases in the area, based on indications of high-risk factors such as victimisation of child sex trafficking, child exploitation, sexual abuse, physical abuse, and medical or mental health conditions. In addition, other children were located at the request of law enforcement to ensure they were safe and confirm the child’s location. 

The Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act of 2015 enhanced the US Marshals’ authority to assist law enforcement with recovering endangered missing children, regardless of whether a fugitive or sex offender was involved. The US Marshals Service established a Missing Child Unit to oversee and manage the implementation of its enhanced authority under the act. Members of the US Marshals Service – Sex Offender Investigations Branch, the Behavioural Analysis Unit, and the Missing Child Unit began training personnel in the participating locations months before the operation to ensure that case selection, vetting, and all pre-operational requirements were met.

It was not a miracle these kids were found – it was the work of a relentless task force. It’s horrifying to hear that the youngest child recovered was only 6 months old.

The people that put children in this position are monsters, and there are plenty of them. According to one report, not only are children under 15 the easiest to steal, gangs make the most money out of them in the illegal sex-trafficking world. Society, it seems, still has a dark side where adults seek to sexually abuse children. Predictably, men are vastly over-represented as the perpetrators of these crimes, but there is a growing trend of young women helping to lure victims.

Now that these rescued children have been recovering, what will the courts do with the traffickers? Many of them had outstanding warrants and a long list of previous charges. More often than not, brave people do all the hard work to put criminals before the court only for activist judges to release them back into the wild. It’s part of the reason so many children went missing in the first place. They thought they could get away with it.

According to an extensive study done by the McCain Institute, the average sex trafficker is a 28.5-year-old man (although 24.4 per cent are women), 75 per cent are African American, 1.2 per cent are non-US citizens, a fifth tend to belong to a gang, 24 per cent have a previous criminal history, 67.3 per cent use some form of online technology to lure victims with recruitment preying largely on runaways, 15.7 per cent of their victims are given drugs and/or alcohol, and the general age of victims is between 4-17.

The data for this study ends in 2015. Since then the situation has spiralled out of control. According to the Polaris Project, in 2021, 10,359 cases were reported to the National Human Trafficking Hotline – which is considered to represent a fraction of the real cases.

The European Union has a similar catastrophic rise in child trafficking that appeared seemingly out of nowhere – except … it didn’t. Europe’s child trafficking nightmare took off after the German Chancellor’s open invitation to the third world which almost immediately resulted in the current illegal mass migration threatening to throw previously affluent and peaceful European nations into ruin. Serious crime, brutal sexual assaults, homeless camps through the main streets, and extreme levels of gang violence have all come hand-in-hand with the rise of child trafficking, just as we see on the porous border with Mexico in the US.

California currently has the worst incidence of child trafficking at the same time it is suffering a plague of ‘zombies’ where its streets are filing with drug addicts trapped in a helpless state after using ‘Tranq’ which is said to magnify the effects of Heroin and Fentanyl. Child trafficking follows lawlessness as surely as a Democrat dismantles affluence.

As for Florida and Texas, they make the child trafficking list largely due to their proximity to large, unguarded sections of the border. Arizona, meanwhile, has made significant progress, but only because they adopted a zero-tolerance policy. In February of this year, Arizona made a range of arrests during the Super Bowl including 48 felony and 300 misdemeanor arrests after they used the big event as a honey trap for criminals. 14 of the felony arrests were for adults trying to have sex with children. In August 2022, the FBI found 17 victims in Phoenix over 4 days, arresting 85 people. It was part of an investigation that found 84 children and 141 adult victims, including 37 missing children. The scale of these operations is terrifying.

Once you lose control of who is coming into your country, it should come as no surprise that criminals start smuggling children back out and into the endless hell of abuse.

While we should today be praising the US Marshals who brought these kids home, our fury should turn on the politicians who – through their inadequacy and desire to ‘win votes’ – have allowed a criminal class to prey on children. And when we are done with that, we need to find out why there is a market for young children. The depraved behaviour must be coming from somewhere and it is high time it was dealt with.