Tim Ballard, the former Homeland Security agent whose experience rescuing child sex trafficking victims inspired the film “Sound of Freedom,” accused the U.S. government of helping to facilitate cartel-led child trafficking rings in the United States by releasing young migrants who crossed the southern border into their care.
“It is shameful that I have to say this, but I spent 12 years working for the U.S. government to rescue children. Now, thanks to these policies, I have to rescue children from the U.S. Government,” Ballard said Tuesday on “The Story.”
“This is dangerous,” he warned. “This is a crisis.”
Moments earlier, Ballard joined Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., at a press conference outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., demanding the Biden administration find an estimated 85,000 unaccompanied minors, who entered the U.S. via the southern border and remain…