Human traffickers are drugging children as young as eight years old and smuggling them into the United States by posing as their parents, according to Border Patrol agents.
The agents told The New York Post that they are seeing a disturbing trend where “increasing numbers of smugglers posing as family units in order to ‘recycle’ children,” the report noted.
“A few years ago when they were coming in en masse, we had to let family units in. People kept coming in and after a while we noticed the kids were the same, but the parents were different. They were recycling the kids,” one Border Patrol source told The Post.
“I hate thinking about it because there were thousands of kids and who knows where they all ended up,” the source explained.
Authorities say it’s not clear what is happening to the children once they are smuggled into the US — but many are vulnerable to…
