U.S. Sen. Katie Britt (R-Montgomery) appeared on "Fox News Sunday" with host Shannon Bream Sunday and answered a question many have asked.
Bream asked if Britt was trying to relate the story of a woman she met at the border to something that happened under the Biden administration. The woman, Karla Jacinto Romero, was sex trafficked by Mexican cartels when she was 12 years old.
Britt told Bream what she said was clear.
"I very clearly said I spoke to a woman who told me about when she was trafficked when she was 12," Britt said. "So I didn't say a teenager; I didn't say a young woman, a grown woman, a woman when she was trafficked when she was 12."
During her first 100 days in office, Britt said she visited the border three times and spoke with people and border patrol agents about what was going on. She said she wanted to find out what they thought should be done to prevent similar incidents. She compared her first 100 days to President Joe Biden's first 100 days when he put in place 94 executive actions allowing more border crossings.
"Minutes after coming into office, he stopped all deportations," she explained. "He halted construction of the border wall, and he said I am going to give amnesty to millions. Those types of things act as a magnet to have more and more people here."
Britt said she hopes the story can bring light to human trafficking and crimes being committed by drug cartels coming across the border.
"The truth is – and the media knows this, yet they're not covering it – that human trafficking has gone up under President Biden," said Britt. "If you look back under 2018, it was a $500 million industry, human trafficking by the drug cartels. It is now a $13 billion industry."
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"Shannon, the drug cartels are winning under this," she continued. "This is a story of what is happening now at an astronomical rate. And we have to bring attention to it. We have to tell those stories. And the liberal media needs to pay attention to it because there are victims all the way coming to the border. There are victims at the border. And then there are victims all throughout our country and to me, it is disgusting to try to silence the voice of telling the story of what it is like to be sex trafficked when we know that that is one of the things that the drug cartels are profiting most off of."
Another issue brought up about Britt's response is the fact she was sitting at a kitchen table. Britt addressed that by saying it wasn't to make a point that Republicans don't care about women and their issues.
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"I think the exact opposite is true and that is exactly why I was sitting at a kitchen table," said Britt. "Republicans care about kitchen table issues. We care about faith, family, we care about freedom. We are the ones talking about the economy and the real effects of that while Joe Biden is claiming that Bidenomics is working. We know that gas is higher. We know that he's making us energy-dependent on others, which is not only hurting us at home, it's actually hurting our allies abroad."
"We know that when we go to the grocery store that things cost more," she continued. "I mean, we know that the credit card debt in this nation right now is at an all-time high, over a trillion dollars. It's the highest ever in our nation's history. We know when people are looking to buy a home for their family that mortgage rates are up.
"And so, we are talking about the issues that women care about."
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