Attorney General Pam Bondi laid out the Biden-Harris administration’s failures on human trafficking while highlighting aggressive prosecutions led by Joint Task Force Alpha under Homeland Security Secretary Christy Noem.
Bondi described a series of recent actions, including indictments and extraditions, that underscore the scale and brutality of transnational smuggling operations.
Pam Bondi said, “Destroyed drives up their profit margins. No longer we are investigating and prosecuting their crimes more aggressively than ever, and Joint Task Force alpha is the tip of the spear. We have been working on that with Secretary Christy no homeland security, and I cannot say enough good things about Secretary Noem. I was with her in Louisiana yesterday, and she is fighting to keep our country safe every single day.”
Bondi revealed that in Tampa alone, federal prosecutors unsealed indictments against 12 defendants accused of running a large-scale smuggling operation bringing illegal aliens from Cuba to the United States.
“The defendants engaged in a conspiracy to bring illegal aliens from Cuba to the US for profit. They coached their clients, including children who came to airports alone, came to our country alone, were put on planes for connecting flights. Lied to Border Patrol agents due to coaching and law enforcement. They charged up to $40,000 per victim. They used Zell to transfer over $7 million over the course of this scheme, and I believe had profits cash of over 18 million,” Bondi stated.
She went on to explain that the smuggling crisis extended beyond Florida.
In Vermont and New York, prosecutors indicted Norma Lorenzo, accused of working with Canadian and Central American co-conspirators.
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According to Bondi, “In 2023 according to CBP, parts of Vermont and New York started seeing unprecedented traffic from illegal aliens. Law enforcement officers operating in these areas encountered aliens from 97 different countries, including China, Pakistan, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, North Korea and Yemen.”
Bondi also detailed a 2021 mass casualty event in Chiapas, Mexico, where more than 50 people died after a semi-truck carrying at least 160 illegal aliens crashed.
“The cost of human smuggling is huge. So many families are dying, so many people are dying,” she said, describing how smugglers used unsafe vehicles and targeted minors.
She noted another disturbing case in Texas, where traffickers drugged unaccompanied children with THC to pass them through customs.
“These monsters behind the operation drugged unaccompanied children coming into our country, giving them THC so they would be asleep when passing through customs, one of the children was overdosed so badly that the child had to go to the hospital,” Bondi explained.
Since President Trump took office, Bondi reported that Joint Task Force Alpha has charged 56 defendants.
Cases included a Canadian-American smuggler arrested for transporting aliens across the St. Lawrence River and a convicted coyote in Texas who charged $30,000 per group of 10 aliens crossing the Rio Grande, with additional payment if they survived.
Bondi emphasized the expansion of the task force to cover northern and maritime borders and the integration of additional agencies.
“That is why we are now expanding Joint Task Force Alpha. It has five steps we will now cover the task force will now cover our northern border in Canada, of course, and all of our maritime borders, our incredible partner again at DHS, Christy noem and I are expanding this to include our DEA ATF and FBI agents to this task force to give us even more manpower,” she said.
Bondi closed her remarks with a direct warning to traffickers: “Let me be clear, if you smuggle human beings, you will be found, you will be prosecuted, and you will be brought to justice. It doesn’t matter where you are. It doesn’t matter what our borders are, the limit of where our country ends and another begins. But it does not limit our law enforcement capabilities to bring you to the United States and prosecute you and lock you up for as long as we can. Thank you and God Bless You.”
🚨 JUST IN: Pam Bondi reveals the Biden regime allowed the transfer of over $7 MILLION for the trafflcking of children into the US via just ONE smuggler
This smuggler made “over $40K per victim,” and profited $18 MILLION, per Bondi
The Biden regime is COMPLICIT in trafflcking! pic.twitter.com/po9W3D5ARU
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The segment underscored the sharp contrast between the Biden administration’s record and the current enforcement approach backed by President Trump’s team, with Bondi and Secretary Noem expanding federal resources to target cartels, coyotes, and traffickers profiting off human misery.