'They Kept Me Like a Slave': Teen Says Becerra's Child Migrant Program Ended in Sexual Abuse

RedState 

On Monday, the latest video dropped, exposing the cruelty and calculation of former Biden Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra in his oversight of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR). But instead of whistleblower testimony, this new release is from an alleged victim of the system that Becerra built. 

These large-scale refugee ORR encampments were the brainchild of then-HHS Secretary Becerra, who is running against Republican Steve Hilton for the California governorship, and Becerra has bragged about the operation, comparing the farming of minors through the facility as an "assembly line."

As RedState reported, Hilton has been releasing these testimonies from whistleblowers who are exposing the ORR unaccompanied minor encampments as centers that facilitated child trafficking, slave labor, and sex trafficking under the guise of connecting these minors with family members or sponsors within the United States.  

Hilton addressed this thusly:

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Juana Rebecca Pérez Santay, one of the alleged victims of Becerra's assembly line, was only 17 years old when she came across the Southern border in May of 2021. Santay said, "Xavier Becerra failed to protect us. He failed me because he didn't protect me." 

Santay was farmed like cattle through the resettlement center, and then placed in the hands of a supposedly vetted sponsor through HHS's ORR program. Instead of being safe, Santay wound up in the hands of slave laborers and was almost raped. 

Santay, who does not speak English, spoke in Spanish. Santay said a social worker accompanied her as she was placed on a resettlement flight to connect Santay with her sponsor. Instead of actually meeting up with the sponsor, the social worker dumped Santay at the airport and left. Santay said she called the number she was given and was picked up by three men who took her to a house.

Santay was told by the woman who ran the house that she was here to work 20 hours a week making food. Instead, Santay worked seven days a week for almost 24-hour shifts, and was forbidden to touch the food she was making. Santay said she was deprived of water, and if she complained, she was threatened with deportation. 

"I have been sexually abused. I slept on a ceramic floor, in a room with four men who were sleeping there," Santay said.

When a drunken man came into the house where Santay was being imprisoned, he honed in on her and decided he wanted to sleep next to her. Then he proceeded to try to rape her. The lady sponsor told the young woman to let the man rape her because, "he's a drunk and he doesn't know what he's doing." 

Santay concluded: "Xavier Becerra failed me because he never cared about my safety. I ended up in the hands of child traffickers, and I was almost raped. They kept me like a slave; they didn't let me talk to my family. If he were to become governor of California, it would be horrible, because I would not want what happened to me to happen to other children."

It is even more maddening hearing her calmly speak about these horrors.

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NEW TESTIMONY: “I was sexually abused because of Xavier Becerra.”

Migrant girl sent to child traffickers after Becerra dismantled HHS vetting procedures. Forced to work 20 hour days—no pay, no water. Slept on ceramic floor surrounded by men. Sexually assaulted.

“They kept me like a slave. Becerra failed to protect me.”

Certain members in the House of Representatives are on a campaign to remove sexual predators from their ranks, and this is a righteous mission. Anyone who seeks to victimize others should never have power over other people's lives and the decisions that they make. 

Yet, if Californians choose Xavier Becerra, they will allow a man who facilitated the trafficking, abuse, and modern-day slavery of young men and women, and then lost 300,000 of them without thinking twice about how to recover them, to control the affairs of the nation's most populous state with purportedly the fourth largest economy in the world.

This ought not be. Accountability should be demanded before someone ascends to a higher office, not after they are given the reins.