Ernst says human smugglers 'taunting' law enforcement by 'brutally' raping young girls at border, urges action
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Sen. Ernst traveled down to the southern border over the weekend where she learned about the brutal rape of young girls who are coming across the border unaccompanied by smugglers.
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Ernst said the senators were told that human smugglers and coyotes assisting the cartels are perpetuating these horrific crimes of sexual abuse toward over half of young girls as they make the journey, often unaccompanied, across the southern border to the U.S.
"The Border Patrol, they told us that about 30% of the women and girls that are being trafficked by the cartels up to the border are being sexually abused along the way. And those are just the ones that are reporting. And so the Border Patrol agents feel that 60% of them having been abused would be a more accurate number. So it really is appalling," Ernst told Fox News.
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