To the Editor:

What the media and Progressives are trying to do, like Kelly Scoles, is to weaponize the Epstein case against President
Trump. They want everyone to ignore the horrors progressives created without taking one bit of responsibility for what is
now being exposed. With statements like “What is Trump’s real reason for paving over the Epstein crimes and protecting
pedophiles.....” she completely ignores, on purpose, the real issues still happening TODAY.

Last week the House Committee on Homeland Security held a hearing revealing the Biden-Harris Administration (BHA) working
with Democrat officials and open border advocates pushed a pro-illegal immigration agenda and placed political aims above
the welfare and safety of Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC). A child trafficking industry prospered for four years with
open border policies and young victims still hiding in plain sight.

The Center for Immigration Studies calculated that BHA gave $6 billion in grants to 15 United Nations (UN) Agencies and 230
Nonprofit/NGOs that turned the border into a welcome center with a travel service of planes and Uber drivers to ship
migrants throughout the US interior. Recent reports have upgraded the numbers of missing UACs to 450,000 in the last days
of the BHA.

Through cooperation of Dept. Homeland Security (DHS), Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS), BHA, UN and Nonprofits/NGOs
a child trafficking ring was created.. The UN and NGOs were placed along the border and worked as the middleman in a
pipeline of tender-age children into sex trafficking and slave labor. As the UAC crossed the border, they were primarily
handed over to the NGOs by the Border Patrol. They were then delivered to poorly vetted sponsors with little oversight and
failed to ensure proper follow-up or communications for the UACs’ well-being.

Their speed of removing the migrants was important to avoid the bad optics of the thousand walking and sleeping on the
streets due to the volume of overcrowding in certain sectors which still happened due to the overwhelming numbers. BHA
stopped the use of DNA biometric screening of children leaving no way to check who the UAC belonged with, while 70% of the
documentation turned in by sponsors was fraudulent or incomplete.

It was reported these NGOs did little if any background checks on their own employees and if one complained of problems or
raised concerns they were fired; while the executives received substantial revenue, salary increases and bonuses.

In February 2023 the Office of Refugee Resettlement reported 85,000 UAC could not be located. A Notice of Concern hotline
was set up for the UAC to report problems and get help. BUT get this; it had ONE PERSON HIRED TO OPERATE IT. Yes, One
person!!! As a result between Aug. 2023 thru Jan. 2025, 65,000 calls for help went unanswered. Later, in August 2024, ICE
reported they could not monitor all the UACs released from DHS custody. All this open border horror was done for power
(more house Representatives) and monetary gain through cheap labor.

Today the Trump Administration, DHS, ICE, FBI, local and state law enforcement are working to locate the children using the
65,000 recorded unanswered calls and rescue the trafficked children which are mostly girls 14 yrs. or younger. So far
13,061 of the 35,000 located, some working in factory farms, had their captors/sponsors arrested. The Trump Administration
has stated locating those children is a priority adding, “We know some of these kids are in forced labor and sex
trafficking and we found some, unfortunately in those conditions”. Progressives like Kelly Scoles claim “shiny things” will
“divert attention” from Epstein. Are children working in sex trade and slave labor just “shiny things”?

Jean McLeod,

Fillmore, Ca