đ¨ The US Government is âfacilitating the largest child trafficking ring in American history.â & is âReleasing children to traffickersâ
âMarcus, you testified a moment ago to Senator Butler that every child gets a Know Your Rights presentation.
Is that correct?
Yes.
Is that before or after you release them to labor traffickers?
Senator, every child that comes into our care gets a Know Your Rights presentation.
Have you read that children are scrubbing dishes, They are operating heavy machinery, they are delivering meals, they are harvesting coffee, they are working construction, they are working as housekeepers, they are working overnight shifts at plants where they are not paid, they are not going to school, they are not cared for, they are not giving meals, almost all of it illegally.
Are you aware of that?
That's a yes or no.
Yes.
Do the Know Your Rights presentation help them in those situations.
Senator Orr, that's a yes or no, I think.
Do you really think that you're helping these children by releasing them to labor traffickers and, yes, sex traffickers, 85,000 children whom you have no contact with?
And your answer is we gave them a presentation before we turned them over to these people who are exploiting them on a scale not seen in this country for 100 years, a century.
You do home visits.
In all cases, you can actually see where these children are are being released to you, whose care you're putting them in.
We do not do home visits in all cases, Senator.
I'd really like the opportunity to talk about what we Let's look at what the secretary said to you, Mr.
Becerra, the secretary told the Orr director.
That's you, right?
Extraordinary times call for extraordinary people.
Yes, that if she could not increase the number of discharges, he would find someone who could.
That if Henry Ford had run his plants like this, he would never have become famous and rich.
This is not the way you do an assembly line.
Get the kids out, run them through, get them out to those sponsors, those traffickers.
Why didn't you resign when he said this?
Do you think that this is morally acceptable?
Do you think that this is acceptable to run, to run Orr like an assembly line and to release these children to traffickers?
We should not run Orr like an assembly line.
The safety and well-being of children is our top concern.
Plainly it is not your top concern because you have managed to lose 85,000 of them and they're with labour traffickers.
How many are you in regular contact with right now?
I don't have the specific number.
How can you not know?
Why would you come to this hearing and not know?
Respectfully, respectfully, I would like you to do your job and not release children to human traffickers.
Respectfully, that's what I would like.
I'd like you not facilitate the largest child trafficking ring in American history.â