According to an official Guatemalan letter obtained by this investigative columnist, a number of American tax payer funded non-governmental organizations ( NGOs ) operating both inside and outside the United States are complicit in the ongoing trafficking, abuse, and children’s disappearance from their nation.
Federal officials told SaraACarter.com that the Guatemalan authorities is requesting full cooperation from the State of Texas, where the allegations of abuse have been reported.
Attorney General Ken Paxton received a notice from Guatemalan Attorney General Mara Consuelo Porras on Saturday. Porras requested Paxton’s help with inquiries into new judicial reports that claimed Guatemala’s Public Ministry had reported that alone small children and adolescents being trafficked into the United States from Guatemala had reportedly experienced sexual and physical abuse at facilities run by U.S. tax payer-funded NGOs.
The Biden Administration has given NGOs tens of billions of dollars in grants to those who work to home, feed, teach, and provide solutions to illegal immigrants entering the country. The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think- tank in Washington D. C. documented the astonishing cost of an open border to American taxpayers.
Guatemalan Secretary General Angel Pineda with the Public Ministry spoke with  , SaraACarter.com Sunday night. He claimed that in this ongoing criminal investigation, he is looking for cooperation from Paxton and the state of Texas.
” As a Prosecutor’s Office, Ministerio Publico of Guatemala, have received a criminal complaint that states some criminal actions, which we see with great concern”, Pineda told this investigative columnist.  ,” Due to the situation that is happening in Texas, regarding different forms of abuses of some Guatemalan children and adolescents, when the institution received that criminal complaint, the institution has started investigations, so it is necessary to work on this matter in an integral way”.
He continued,” I have been authorized to ask for the cooperation of prosecutor Paxton so we can work together to protect Guatemalan children, and I have sent a letter in that matter.”
Attorney General of Texas Paxton was unavailable for comment right away.
The allegations of abuse are currently being investigated, and sources claim that they were allowed to sexually assault and physically abuse children from Guatemala through contracts with NGOs. In other cases, the Guatemalan government is looking into NGOs that are assisting and assisting child trafficking organizations by providing the necessary resources to transport the unaccompanied children to the United States border without the supervision of guardians or parents. Some of these NGOs are active in Central America.
These Guatemalan children reportedly been placed in shelters and organizations throughout Texas under the guise of offering them a family environment, according to Porras in the letter. ” Disturbingly, there have been reports and documented situations of sexual abuse in these shelters, which is a huge violation of the rights and dignity of these children”.
In Texas, according to the translated letter from Spanish to English states,” The State of Texas bears a lot of the responsibility for these lost children, who have been transferred to the border and processed migratory ( through migration procedures )  , in fully aware of this situation.”
Porras continues to say in her letter to Paxton that “you know, gaps in security and diplomacy related to the border between the United States and Mexico have resulted in a significant increase in drug trafficking as well as a devastating emergence of human trafficking.” A horrifying pattern of children from Guatemala being disappeared has been brought to our attention in relation to the new complaint that has been filed with this institution, and it has been reported to the Public Ministry that a complex network involving Non-Governmental Organizations ( NGOs ) operating in Guatemala, who collaborate with specific entities in the State of Texas, are responsible for the abuse of Guatemalan children when they are away from their parents and do not have someone to protect them.
This is n’t the first time NGOs have been accused of breaking the law or failing to protect victims of trafficking by lawmakers. In February, Paxton announced that his office was suing the Annunciation House — a Catholic NGO that operates” several houses of hospitality” for migrants and refugees in El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. The NGO serves as a “gateway” for the trafficking of illegal immigrants into the United States.
Paxton stated in February,” the chaos at the southern border has created an environment where NGOs, funded with taxpayer money from the Biden Administration, facilitate astonishing horrors including human smuggling. While the federal government continues to perpetuate the lawlessness that is destroying this nation, my office continues to work day in and day out to hold these organizations accountable for worsening illegal immigration.
In fact, the Office of Inspector General ( OIG ) began raising concerns about the Department of Health and Human Services ‘ placement and safety guidelines for unaccompanied alien children ( UACs ).
The Office of Refugee Resettlement ( ORR ) program, which is administered by law enforcement in the United States, received strong attention. Within those reports, along with testimony from whistleblowers, numerous allegations of sexual abuse of children and misplaced children by HHS/ORR have surfaced.
According to the witnesses who testified before Congress, allegations of abuse frequently occur at contracted facilities. In fact, according to sources, the situation still persists despite lawmakers becoming aware that ORR lost the location of more than 85, 000 children who had been placed into sponsors homes.
U. S. Customs and Border Protection ( CBP ) statistics, suggest that the number of unaccompanied alien children ( UACs ) who arrived at the border has swelled from 33, 239 in fiscal year 2020 to more than 146, 000 in fiscal year 2021 and more than 152, 000 in fiscal year 2022. That is roughly a 500 percent increase in the number of unaccompanied children trafficked.
The New York Times published an article about migrant children who frequently work inchoate jobs across the nation in violation of child labor laws in February 2023. At the time the story was written, over 130, 000 unaccompanied minors had entered the nation that fiscal year.
In April, 2023 the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security and Enforcement interviewed HHS whistleblower Tara Lee Rodas. She told the committee that she believed she was going to help place children in loving homes when she was detailed with HHS at an Emergency Intake Site in Pomona, California.
” Instead, I discovered that children are being trafficked through a sophisticated network that begins with recruiting in their home country, smuggled to the U. S. border, and ends when]Office of Refugee Resettlement ] delivers a child to a sponsor — some sponsors are criminals and traffickers and members of Transnational Criminal Organizations”, she said. Some sponsors view children as commodities and assets that can be used to make money; this is why labor trafficking is so rampant in the country.
In 2019, I interviewed Guatemalan Attorney General Porras in Guatemala. Then, her attention turned to the ongoing problem of child trafficking in the area and in her country. She reiterated that the government of Guatemala’s first priority was its children.
And it is shocking that the flow of unaccompanied children is increasing. We were briefed on the rescue of seven unaccompanied children under the age of 10 who had been trafficked into the United States for nefarious purposes during one particular visit to Guatemala in 2018 with Chris Farrell from Judicial Watch, an investigative nonprofit in Washington, D.C. These children were rescued by the Guatemalan government from a trafficking organization operating within a large caravan of people who were being kept watch along the country’s border.
In an interview with me in Guatemala City, Porras stated that” the main priority of our nation’s children is that many of these children are from areas where they lack resources to protect themselves from these predators.”
In her letter to Paxton, who is also launching his own investigations into the NGOs operating in the state of Texas, she reiterated those same sentiments.
The criminal complaints that the “non-governmental organizations” that are active in Guatemala and the state of Texas and that may be involved in child trafficking operations are” Save the Children,”” Changing the Way We Care,”” The World Childhood Foundation, Arise, and La Unión del Pueblo Entero are concerning. These organizations may be particularly alarming because some of them receive federal funding from American taxpayers, which is what makes them so. I’ve been informed that other non-governmental organizations operating in Guatemala and Texas may be partners in child trafficking, supporting this trafficking and other issues involving unaccompanied children and adolescents traveling, but they have failed to protect children in Guatemala.
In light of the ongoing investigations, the NGOs in this letter could not be reached for comment right away. When and if they respond, this column will be updated.
Guatemalan officials, who are currently looking into these allegations, have promised to use all available resources to prosecute the traffickers and any NGOs that promote child trafficking.
The investigation, according to the letter to Paxton, is intended to “protect the human rights and interests of the Republic of Guatemala residents, will spare no effort and exhaust all necessary efforts efforts to locate and criminally prosecute those responsible for this enormous tragedy.” Assure yourself that the Republic of Guatemala’s Attorney General and Chief of Public Ministry will vigorously carry out her legal duties in an effort to end this child trafficking epidemic and hold those responsible for their crimes against humanity.
Porras asked that Paxton’s office contact Guatemalan officials to coordinate in the investigation.
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