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Josh Hawley: “600 HSI investigators who were assigned to child…”

Featuring: Josh Hawley, Republican | U.S. Senate Missouri

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Senator Josh Hawley's Exchange with DHS Secretary Kristi Noem | 03.03.26

Published | Video Starts at 04:35

I'm glad that you mentioned child trafficking, because it's so important. And I'll never forget having a whistleblower from hsi, Homeland Security Investigations, which you oversee, come to me in 2023 and reveal that 600 HSI investigators who were assigned to child exploitation and fentanyl cases...had been pulled off...and moved to the southern border. southern border to, in the words of the whistleblower, make sandwiches for illegal immigrants and Ferry them back and forth to doctor's appointments at the same time that the administration in power at the time. (04:35–04:48)

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Asserts that 600 HSI investigators were reassigned from child exploitation and fentanyl cases to the southern border.

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