Biden’s border policy is barbaric

Dear Editor:

Can anyone explain to me the difference between human trafficking and the slave trade? Watching what is going on at our Southern border is criminal.

Watching the video of the two smugglers dropping two girls, ages 3 and 5, from a 15-foot fence is shocking. Only through sheer luck were they found and rescued. Someone paid the drug cartels to have them smuggled to the border. They are supposedly reunited with their mother.

A few questions: Are we sure she’s the mother? Is there any proof or just her word? Who paid for their trip? When they were found, they had a knapsack with a cell phone and a phone number. Is the alleged mother being investigated to make sure she’s their real mother and not working for human traffickers?

We know boys, girls and women are trafficked and sold into sex slavery. The drug cartels are making hundreds of millions of dollars charging $5,000 and up to bring people to the border. The Trump policy of making them wait in Mexico slowed the traffic down. Then Biden announced during the campaign there would be no deportations during the first 100 days of his administration and once in office, they allowed them across the border, overwhelming the system, keeping them packed like sardines in shelters, letting many go into the interior of the U.S., even though 10 percent are COVID-positive, with just a promise to appear in court at a later date.

By not even trying to secure the border, Biden is abetting the sex slave trade of the drug cartels. Contrary to statements by the Biden Administration, this is in no way humane. Barbaric is a better word.

John Habersberger

New Paltz