Hello everyone and welcome to this special live stream of American Thought Leaders. We've overcome some gremlins and some technical difficulties. I'm your host, Janja Kelek, and this is my co-host.

Cindy Drew Kerr. I'm the host of NTD's International Roundtable, and today we are co-hosting this special event.

So we're going to be covering a pretty tough subject today, and that's child trafficking in America.

And particularly the question of what's happening to these unaccompanied migrant children that are crossing the border.

And we've learned some really troubling things,

actually, from people who have put everything on the line to reveal these facts. So let me introduce

our guests today. First, we have Tara Rodas. Tara has been on American thought leaders before.

She's a whistleblower who has testified both in the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate about what she

witnessed firsthand while on a temporary assignment

with HHS. She's a 20-year public servant, has worked most of her career in the federal

inspector general community. And over here we have Aaron Stevenson, and Aaron is a former

intelligence research specialist for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, who became

a whistleblower when he uncovered some very troubling truths. And finally, we have Mary Flynn O'Neill,

who's the executive director of America's future, the nonprofit. They've been doing remarkable

grassroots work educating the public across America about the realities of child trafficking

and how to make a difference.

So this is a particularly tough topic, and I think a lot of people don't really understand

the scope of it.

So let's start there.

Tara, can you explain to us?

Just give us a sense of the scope of the problem what we're actually talking about today.

Sure.

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