The violent story that Alabama Senator Katie Britt used to attack Joe Biden’s immigration policies did not happen while Biden was in office, she admitted on Sunday.
Britt said, “President Biden’s border crisis is a disgrace,” after describing a woman’s experience of being “sex trafficked by the cartels starting at age 12” during the Republican answer to Thursday’s State of the Union speech. It’s disgusting. Plus, it can be stopped in nearly all cases.
On Sunday, Britt criticised the president’s border policy after answering “No, Shannon” to Fox News’ Shannon Bream’s question about whether she meant to imply that the story had occurred during Biden’s administration.
I stated unequivocally that I spoke with a woman who confided in me the story of her 12-year-old experience with human trafficking. Therefore, I refrained from referring to her as a teenager, a young woman, or an adult woman. Britt mentioned a woman who was 12 years old when she was trafficked.
Freelance writer Jonathan Katz, in a lengthy video uploaded to TikTok on Friday, claimed to have located the tale that Britt mentioned and discovered that it occurred in Mexico in the middle of the 2000s.
In January 2023, not long after Britt assumed office, Katz referenced a press release from Sen. Marsha Blackburn, who, with Sens. Britt and Cindy Hyde-Smith, travelled to Eagle Pass, Texas, to hear from human trafficking survivor Karla Jacinto Romero and others.
The senators were apprised of the situation regarding human trafficking victims’ plight and cartel operations in Mexico, according to the news release.
In 2015, during a House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Global Human Rights hearing on sex trafficking, Jacinto Romero publicly told her tale. Speaking via a translator, she recounted the four years beginning at the age of twelve, during which she endured repeated instances of being “emotionally and sexually violated.” She went on to describe how she “grow into the activist” she is today after escaping to a shelter when she was 16 years old.
According to Britt’s social media accounts, she has mentioned the tale she told on Thursday before, notably on Capitol Hill on September 27, 2023.
In a statement released on Sunday, White House spokesman Andrew Bates informed AWN, “Senator Britt should stop choosing human smugglers and fentanyl traffickers over our national security and the Border Patrol Union. Instead of continuing to use discredited claims to oppose the most stringent bipartisan border legislation in recent history.”
After former president Trump and other prominent Republicans in the House launched a barrage of attacks on the bill, Senate Republicans last month succeeded in blocking a bipartisan foreign aid and border compromise that would have implemented tight border measures.