00:00Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced the indictments of three illegal migrants who
00:04tried to smuggle more than a dozen children into the United States by falsely claiming to sponsor
00:09them. And the DOJ is blaming the Biden administration for allowing loopholes in the
00:14immigration system. Oftentimes, the children were abused, assaulted, and certainly exploited.
00:20In some cases, individuals would sponsor multiple children, which required them to lie
00:27to government personnel and on government forms, claiming they were close relatives when in fact
00:31they were not. Two of the defendants, a brother and sister in their 30s, had allegedly enlisted the
00:36third defendant in the conspiracy, a 20-year-old woman, after she was fraudulently sponsored and
00:41smuggled into the country. Prosecutors say the scam involved applying to the Department of Health and
00:46Human Services to have migrant children stay with them. Using false birth certificates, Guatemalan
00:51consular ID cards and photos of purported relatives' IDs, the DOJ says the trio was able to deceive
00:57authorities. Now, this seems to be just the tip of the iceberg. The Justice Department says they've
01:02identified more than 15,000 sponsor scams, which contributed to the estimated 300,000 migrant
01:09children lost during the Biden administration.
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