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At Border, This Congresswoman Met a Girl Who Was Gang-Raped by Drug Runners

At Border, This Congresswoman Met a Girl Who Was Gang-Raped by Drug Runners

FromThe Daily Signal Podcast


At Border, This Congresswoman Met a Girl Who Was Gang-Raped by Drug Runners

FromThe Daily Signal Podcast

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23 minutes
Released:
May 20, 2021
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On a recent trip to the U.S.-Mexico border, Rep. Kat Cammack, R-Fla., saw young girls who had been gang-raped on the journey to America.In one case, Cammack says, a Border Patrol agent "pointed out a 9-year-old girl" at a processing facility in Donna, Texas.The girl "came up to me and she had tears in her eyes," the Florida Republican recalls, adding:She looked extremely distraught and I was asking her her name. She was really struggling to tell me her name. I asked her where she was from, and I kept hearing this really broken crackle. And I asked the Border Patrol agent. I said, "Is she just very upset? What's going on?"And he pulled me aside and he said, "Ma'am, we found this young girl in the fields. She was being gang-raped by cartel members. And she had been screaming so loud for so long that her vocal cords have given out."This is a 9-year-old girl who had been recycled by the cartels, meaning they are children that are sent along to escort single adults to the border so that they can get through the processing, because they don't run biometrics on children under the age of 12.Cammack joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" to describe this encounter as well as share her perspective on the situation at the border.We also cover these stories:Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says he opposes Democrats' “slanted” bill to create a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol.President Joe Biden speaks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about his nation's latest conflict with the terrorist group Hamas. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot appears to be granting interviews only to black or Hispanic journalists.  Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.
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May 20, 2021
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