Republican Sen. Katie Britt of Alabama has been criticized for using the experiences of sex trafficking victims in the early 2000s to condemn President Joe Biden and his border policies.
Britt gave to the Republican Party refute Biden’s State of the Union address to Congress this week.
In her rebuttal, Britt mentioned an incident in which from the river The portion of the Texas border she painted A seemingly private conversation with someone who survived group sex trafficking in the United States
“That’s where I spoke to a woman who shared her story with me,” Britt says in the film. “She had been sex trafficked by drug cartels since she was 12 years old.”
The victim Britt mentioned was Carla Jacinto RomeroFrom 2004 to 2008, two decades before Democrat Joe Biden became president, he was subject to sex trafficking in Mexico (not the United States, as the senator suggested).
reporter Jonathan Katz Let’s first piece together Britt’s experience introducing Jacinto Romero in the TikTok video.
Britt seemed to be trying to frame the anecdote as an egregious example of Biden’s border management.
“We would not allow this to happen in a third world country,” she added. “President Biden’s border policy is a disgrace. This crisis is despicable.”
But Jacinto Romero did not experience sex trafficking in the United States because of Biden’s border policies – because Biden was not president from 2004 to 2008, and she was also sexually trafficked in Mexico.
Katz slammed Britt for suggesting that Jacinto Romero privately leaked her story.
“Britt told it like she was sitting on the banks of the Rio Grande, like holding her hand, like letting her tell stories that she wouldn’t tell anyone else,” he said.
Instead, he added, Jacinto Romero is a public advocate for sex trafficking and has shared her story publicly multiple times to shed light on the issue.Jacinto Romeros testify to the united states congressMexico’s House of Representatives and the Vatican, according to a brief brief in a 2015 U.S. House document.
Britt visits the Del Rio area January 2023 Joint visit with Sens. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Mississippi. During that trip, Jacinto Romero appeared at a press conference with Britt, Blackburn and Hyde-Smith to publicly tell her harrowing sex trafficking story.
Britt has faced a flurry of criticism online since the anecdote was revealed to be false, compounding the previous story. Disapprove About the delivery of her rebuttal.
“So Katie Britt isn’t just an embarrassment. She’s a complete liar. The best liar in Alabama!” political scientist Norman Ornstein wrote in X postal.
Ornstein is part of a wider choir reporter and others Criticizing Britt’s storytelling.
“This is old Alabama politics. The politics of fear and chaos,” Alabama columnist Kyle Whitmire wrote “Britt blamed Biden for an attack that appears to have occurred 20 years ago. When asked, her spokesperson would not give a clear answer.”
Christine Pelosi, a political strategist and daughter of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, asked on Saturday X posts Britt apologized for “liing about horrific sexual violence cases that you exploited for political purposes.”
Sean Ross, a spokesman for Senator Britt, did not deny that Jacinto Romero is a survivor of sex trafficking, but he doubled down on Britt’s story.
“The story Senator Britt told is 100 percent correct,” Ross said in a statement to CNBC. “But now there are more innocent victims of this disgusting, cruel trafficking operation by the cartels than ever before.”
While sex trafficking is happening in America under the Biden administration, Jacinto Romero’s sex trafficking story is not an example.
“Today, Carla is a happy and successful mother of two beautiful girls, a wife, a student and an international activist,” the 2015 House document reads.
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