Biden rebutter Sen. Britt blasted for using 20-year-old sex traffic story to attack border policy

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Biden rebutter Sen. Britt blasted for using 20-year-old **** traffic story to ******* border policy

Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala., is seen in the U.S. Capitol during votes on Tuesday, January 9, 2024. 

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*********** Sen. Katie Britt of Alabama is under ***** for using what appears to be a **** trafficking victim’s experience from the early 2000s to condemn President Joe Biden’s current border policy.

In her

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to Biden’s State of the Union, Britt referenced a visit to the

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sector of the Texas border where she had a seemingly private conversation with someone who had survived **** trafficking by groups in the U.S.

“That’s where I spoke to a woman who shared her story with me,” Britt said in the video. “She had been **** trafficked by the cartels starting at the age of 12.”

The woman in question was later found out to be

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, an activist who has publicly testified about her experience with **** trafficking, which took place from 2004 to 2008 in Guadalajara and other ******** cities.

Britt seemingly attempted to present the anecdote as a damning example of Biden’s border management.

“We wouldn’t be okay with this happening in a third-world country,” she added. “President Biden’s border policies are a disgrace. This crisis is despicable.”

But Jacinto Romero did not experience **** trafficking in the U.S. as a result of Biden’s border policy — because he was not president from 2004 to 2008 and because she was **** trafficked in Mexico.

Britt’s implication that Jacinto Romero divulged her experiences privately is not borne out by publicly available information.

Britt visited the Del Rio area in

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on a ****** trip with Sens. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss. During that trip, Jacinto Romero appeared at a press conference with Britt, Blackburn and Hyde-Smith where she publicly relayed her grueling ****-trafficking story.

Jacinto Romero is an advocate for ****-trafficking victims and has repeatedly shared her story in

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to U.S.

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, the ******** House of Representatives and the ********, according to a short 2015 profile in a U.S. House of Representatives document.

Journalist Jonathan Katz first pieced together Britt’s presentation of Jacinto Romero’s experience in a

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video on Friday.

Sean Ross, spokesperson for Sen. Britt, did not deny that Jacinto Romero is the ****-trafficking survivor in question but doubled down on Britt’s story.

“The story Senator Britt told was 100% correct,” Ross said in a statement to CNBC. “But there are more innocent victims of that kind of disgusting, brutal trafficking by the cartels than ever before right now.”

Though **** trafficking has taken place in the U.S. under the Biden administration, Jacinto Romero’s ****-trafficking story is not an example of it.

“Today, Karla is a happy and successful mother of two beautiful ******, a wife, a student, and an international activist,” reads the 2015 House document.

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