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Florida rescues dozens of ‘critically missing’ children in massive sting

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by OklahomaGator, Jun 24, 2025 at 9:19 AM.

  1. CHFG8R

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    I understand that this was vague to only you. Done.
     
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    It's not that liberal voters don't care, but they refuse to believe what has been shared about the border and trafficking over the last 4 years. Many liberals still refuse to believe we had a crisis at the border. You voted for more child trafficking when you voted for the border czar Kamala. Hundreds of thousands of children are missing. The Biden administration that you believe in wanted to speed up the process of sending them to sponsors, so they were not sitting around the detention facilities. That's bad optics. They stopped the rapid DNA testing to speed it up, which is pretty diabolical. The only reason for the rapid DNA tests is to keep children from predators and traffickers who delivered them across the border. Our government sent these migrant children to unsafe and even non-existent addresses, and the NGOs are complicit as well..

    HHS now requires DNA testing, ID checks, income verification, and full background screening for every sponsor—no exceptions. Liberals who give a shit about children should welcome this new policy. Stop consuming the MSM that covers it up.
     
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  4. rivergator

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    What’s the evidence that this has anything to do with the border?
     
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    The checks HHS is now doing are long overdue. So kudos for that.

    But with many of these stories.. like a recent one, they seized enough fentanyl to kill everyone in the US…… well headlines.

    We would need to see the charges on everyone to gauge the press release validity. In a similar operation, 90% of children rescued were because they were living in horrible conditions with pos addicted parents and guardians.

    The operations are still great regardless. Just state the specifics , it was good work! But the PR folks gotta PR and then all the arrests get extrapolated to the worst case.

    Ymmv, I just dislike propaganda and hyperbole. But heck, I dislike cute operational names and even myself much of the time. ;)
     
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    Every organization every political party every president is going to make as much hay over something like that as possible. I don’t mind the crowing and a little hyperbole over something as good as rescue kids from monsters.
    Polk county just had a huge Fentanyl bust.. and traced it back to the Texas border. There is no evidence given at this point to a suggest those arrested for child trafficking all came across illegally.. but it isn’t out of the realm of possibility or even likelihood that some of the perps did.
     
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  7. rivergator

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    That’s the thing. There’s probably a bunch of different situations involved. Kids living in crappy druggie homes with parents who don’t have custody. 16-year-old girl who ran away to live with her 19 year boyfriend. We don’t know. But some people are acting like this all the work of illegal immigrants who are kidnapping kids off the streets and locking them up to be sex slaves. And maybe there’s some of that too.
    We don’t know.
     
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    The lack of knowledge among liberals and Fox News conservatives continues to shock me in this day and age. You watch CNN, 60 Minutes, and Face the Nation and think you are getting the news with zero spin and 100% accuracy. You're not, and the MSM continues to be called out for their disingenuous spin and false information. How do all the liberals miss out on this false reporting when it is called out daily? It's because you consume the same stuff over and over and over again.

    Chuck Grassley is one of the many who have reported the HHS and DHS missing children numbers during the Biden administration. Migrant children were brought across the border to be enslaved in some way. Do you realize how unintelligent one looks asking if the missing children have anything to do with the border? These are reports about missing children who crossed the border.

    Bombshell Report Confirms Grassley Oversight of Biden-Harris Admin’s Failure to Protect Migrant Children | U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa
     
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    Are you ever going to tell us why the new right wing keeps voting for groomers?
     
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    Are you capable of discussing anything without shoving it through the square hole of your partisanship?

    How is this a partisan issue? Why are you trying to make it one? You people are so strange.
     
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    One of the "construction workers" Kilmar Abrego Garcia was transporting when stopped in Tennessee was a minor but I guess that doesn't matter because Garcia was a Maryland father.
     
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  12. rivergator

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    Ah, so we shouldn’t get the news from CNN or 60 Minutes. We should get it from extremely partisan politicians because they’re always right?
    How many of those 60 rescued kids were missing migrants? Any idea?
    Btw, from Politifact:

    Claim about missing migrant children misleading, experts say

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    https://apnews.com/article/fact-che...dren-missing-7ab0cea2fd2238346197429e952baa8b
     
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    There is no real evidence of the age of people being transported. None of them had ID.
     
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