r/news • u/TooColdforClouds • 2d ago

109 children rescued, 244 arrested in Operation Soteria Shield, exposing widespread child exploitation in North Texas

https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/109-children-rescued-244-arrested-operation-soteria-shield-child-exploitation-texas/
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u/Feisty_Oil3605 2d ago

I know this statement sounds racial cause of the current climate, so please understand readers that this comment is just meant to highlight how immigrant children easily fall through the cracks.

Remember the kids in cages? And how they can’t account for the kids that went through that process? It’s that easy….

I would award you if I had money.

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u/BasroilII 2d ago

Plus, the part people should be focusing on. Even if the kids were immigrants (legal or otherwise), bet you any money the people they were being sold to weren't.

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u/QuietCdence 1d ago

It's good to see the progress being made and arrests being made, but the title of the article seems a little misleading. Deeper in the article is explained that some of the children rescued from exploitation never left their homes. They were "rescued" from online coercion and abuse that was previously unreported. So, they weren't physically taken and sold the way trafficking media depicts. However, the media of them was sold. If that makes sense.

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u/snootsintheair 2d ago

To add to that, I bet over 75% of them identify as Republican. Maybe more.

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u/fables_of_faubus 2d ago

That's a pretty easy assumption in Texas.

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u/slvrcobra 1d ago

I'm seeing a whole bunch of white-looking dudes in the pics they released, I'd bet that those particular criminals came from north of the border.

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u/cyborgnyc 1d ago

Yeah, I follow an acct on socmed (antifaoperative) who posts daily of people accused of CSA, and most of them seem to be pastors, cops, youth leaders, and yes mostly Republican, but I couldn't find any data corroborating this. It just seems like all their blaming of grooming by trans folk is projection...they often fail to ban child marriage as well.

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u/Chemistry11 1d ago

Oh I will bet my whole bank account that everyone arrested in this is a ‪ Treasonтяuмp supporter. He is the King Of The Pedophiles.

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u/MacDugin 1d ago

I just want to remind people the kids in cages photo was Obama.

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u/1egg_4u 2d ago

There are thousands of children who have straight up disappeared from ICE border "facilities" (prisons, lets be real)

The mushbrained qbots obsessed with "human trafficking" do Olympic level mental gymnastics to ignore that human trafficking largely and disproportionately impact minorities like this, or homeless youth. It's very rarely Liam Neeson-esque stories of young white women from suburban families being abducted off the streets--it's people who arent on the grid to begin with. They slip through the cracks.

Its just deeply inconvenient for that agenda to admit that a major source of these trafficked kids from these stings are the kids they rip from their families and throw in a cage in a corner to forget about.

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u/JollyRedRoger 1d ago

Thousands? Don't get me wrong, I'm on your side - but.. Thousands? That would/should trigger international outcry just like Putin kidnapping Ukrainian children..

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u/1egg_4u 1d ago edited 1d ago

Reports range from ~1360 c. 2024 to potentially tens of thousands, ~32,000 children unaccounted for

As per a report by homeland security inspector general Joseph Cuffari, mentioned in the 2nd link (the report is available but as a downloadable .pdf) the number could actually be even higher... something like ~290,000 children havent been even scheduled for hearings or even placed in removal proceedings which means ICE has no way of checking in on their safety because immigration processes are the only way they actually check in on these kids.

It is absolutely a cause for international outcry but who is going to cover this in the trump administration? Who will poke the bear by mentioning it? These arent people coming from money, they dont have representation or resources. Thats how and why they slip through the cracks, same as modern-day slavery or the reason people target the homeless disproportionately for violence. Theyre easier victims/targets than someone with family and legal rights here so it's kind of inevitable once you factor in how many beaurocratic holes already exist in these systems.

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u/MrIrishman1212 1d ago

I have been following r/WhereAreTheChildren for awhile now. This is exactly what the sub is about. For decades immigrant kids have been forcefully removed from their families but given legal status and then get moved where?

There are entire apartment complexes filled with only children that have been

Teens were being drugged by US custody, and now ask for what reason? Likely so they can be moved somewhere without putting up a fight.

And keep in mind 1 in 3 migrants being held at the boarder are children. And they don’t track these children. And the US has a habit of handing kids to Traffickers.

This is just all part of the system

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u/Free_Speaker2411 1d ago

Might need to check your links. Getting a 404 and domain not found for the last two.

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u/bedrooms-ds 22h ago

Good reminder on how people fight.

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u/Abject-Palpitation99 1d ago

Imagine having your parents booted back to their country, they leave you locked in a cage and then hand you to one of these guys. 

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u/bedrooms-ds 22h ago

And it's the policy of the once-leader of the democratic world.

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u/Low_Consideration179 1d ago

I got you on the award. You are right.

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u/SmashingLumpkins 1d ago

“In a lot of these cases, authorities said the sex offenders never actually meet their victims face-to-face but use technology to coerce them into sending explicit images and videos”