Alina Habba Reveals New Executive Orders Are Coming to Counter Human Trafficking

American Thought Leaders

Jan Jekielek

Government, News, Politics

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🗓️ 14 March 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Half a million unaccompanied minors entered the United States between 2019 and 2023, and experts fear many of them have been trafficked. And that does not include the children who crossed the border with individuals falsely claiming to be their family members. So where are all these children now?

Alina Habba, who is currently serving as counselor to the president, says she’s working with the different agencies involved to identify and rescue trafficking victims and prosecute the perpetrators.

“I am drafting a couple executive orders regarding that currently that I think will be important to properly get this moving for those kids,” she says.

In her role advising the president, Habba says she’s focused on human trafficking and Iraq. Habba is the daughter of Chaldean Catholics who fled Iraq in the 1980s.

We dive into her work today and get an update on the status of the long-awaited Epstein files.

Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

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0:00.0	I've seen that there were children that were placed in fake sponsor homes under HHS,
0:06.6	and then they would go visit to see if these children were safe and the children were not there.
0:10.2	In this episode, I'm sitting down with Alina Haba,
0:13.1	counselor to President Donald Trump.
0:15.2	500,000 unaccompanied minors entered the United States between 2019 and 2023. and experts fear many of them have been trafficked.
0:24.2	And that does not include the children who cross the border with
0:27.0	individuals claiming to be their family members.
0:30.2	So where are all these children now?
0:32.6	I am drafting a couple executive orders regarding that currently
0:37.2	that I think will be important
0:38.3	to properly get this moving for those kids. In her role advising the president, she told me she's
0:44.4	focused on human trafficking and Iraq. We dive into her work today and get an update on the status
0:50.0	of the long-awaited Epstein Files. This is American Thought Leaders, and I'm Janye Kelleck.
0:55.0	Alina Haba, such a pleasure to have you on American Thought Leaders.
1:01.0	Thank you. Thanks for having me.
1:03.0	Well, and of course, congratulations for becoming the counselor to the president.
1:07.0	Why don't you just tell me what that means to be in this role? I'm obviously a senior advisor to President Trump, as I've been for some time.
1:15.6	And it's not to be confused with White House Counsel's Office.
1:18.6	I don't act as an attorney for White House Counsel's Office.
1:21.6	But I am a senior advisor, so I'm involved in a lot of things.
1:25.6	I sit in on a lot of meetings and
1:29.3	have my opinion heard when needed or asked for and get to work on a great portfolio as well that I got to select.
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