Moody calls on Congress to investigate Biden administration for alleged minor human trafficking

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (FLV) – Attorney General Ashley Moody is calling on Congress to investigate the Biden administration for “subjecting unaccompanied minors to human trafficking.”

This call comes after a Florida statewide grand jury released its third presentation documenting “horrible conditions” unaccompanied minors experience because of the Biden administration’s “failed policies and lack of oversight,” according to the attorney general’s office.

Allegations from the presentment include the federal government “losing track of more than 20,000 children, no background checks on the minors’ sponsors, human trafficking and child abuse.”

The release said Moody is imploring Congress to convene hearings and act to “prevent children from being assaulted and exploited.”

“A Florida Grand Jury found shocking and horrific evidence of the Biden administration facilitating human trafficking and child exploitation of unaccompanied minors. It should enrage everyone that any child is being exposed to such dangerous and terrible conditions,” Moody said.

“I’m calling on Congress to conduct hearings to further the investigation and uncover the evidence that HHS refused to provide to Florida’s Statewide Grand Jury,” she said.

A grand jury report detailed concerns after airplanes filled with migrant children landed at the Jacksonville International Airport overnight in 2021. 

The grand jury was impaneled after Gov. Ron DeSantis requested in 2022 the group recommend changes and improvements to Florida law to better handle illegal immigration.

The report highlighted several issues including the overnight migrant flights, the lack of response from the federal government, and the “unsecure” transportation of migrant children. 

During a six month period in 2021, more than 70 large commercial passenger jets full of unaccompanied migrant children, mostly older teenagers, were landing in Jacksonville in the middle of the night, according to the report. 

The report said the companies charged with fueling and offloading the cargo received last minute notice of the flights “scrambling for workers to be available.”

The migrants were met by private buses or other coach services that also received last minute notice of the number of passengers they would be serving and where their destination would be.

Two senators and 13 U.S. representatives from Florida wrote letters to the Department of Homeland Security “demanding to know what was going on” when airplanes “full of children” were landing in Jacksonville in the middle of the night. However, they received no cooperation, according to the report.

The children would exit the aircraft in an “extremely unsecure environment,” board the buses or SUVs, the buses would then make “several stops” where some of the children would exit.

One individual was a 24-year-old male, wrongly vetted as a child by the Office of Refugee Resettlement and placed onto a plane full of other children.

The 24-year-old was delivered to his sponsor, a man who claimed falsely to be this person’s uncle, in Jacksonville.

The “fake” migrant child reportedly proceeded to violently murder the sponsor by stabbing him more than 50 times and “bludgeoning” him with a chair.

“We wish this were the only case which we have learned about; it is not, but it does serve as a perfect illustration of the completely foreseeable tragic outcomes which occur as a result of this type of activity,” the report said.

When investigators attempted to learn more about the situation of the flights full of unaccompanied migrant children, they were met with “locked gates and letters from lawyers.” After they started issuing subpoenas and making inquiries, the flights stopped, according to the report.

To read the full letter, click here.