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Biden rebutter Sen. Britt blasted for recycling 20-year-old sex traffic story to attack border policy [View all]

Source: CNBC

By Rebecca Picciotto
PUBLISHED SAT, MAR 9 2024 12:13 PM EST

Republican Sen. Katie Britt of Alabama is under fire for using what appears to be a sex trafficking victim’s experience from the early 2000s to condemn President Joe Biden’s current border policy. In her Thursday rebuttal to Biden’s State of the Union, Britt referenced a visit to the Del Rio sector of the Texas border where she had a seemingly private conversation with someone who had survived sex trafficking by groups in the U.S.

“That’s where I spoke to a woman who shared her story with me,” Britt said in the video. “She had been sex trafficked by the cartels starting at the age of 12.” The woman in question was later found out to be Karla Jacinto Romero, an activist who has publicly testified about her experience with sex trafficking, which took place from 2004 to 2008 in Guadalajara and other Mexican cities.

Britt seemingly attempted to present the anecdote as a damning example of Biden’s border management. “We wouldn’t be okay with this happening in a third-world country,” she added. “President Biden’s border policies are a disgrace. This crisis is despicable.” But Jacinto Romero did not experience sex trafficking in the U.S. as a result of Biden’s border policy — because he was not president from 2004 to 2008 and because she was sex trafficked in Mexico. Britt’s implication that Jacinto Romero divulged her experiences privately is not borne out by publicly available information.

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Jacinto Romero is an advocate for sex-trafficking victims and has repeatedly shared her story in testimony to U.S. Congress, the Mexican House of Representatives and the Vatican, according to a short 2015 profile in a U.S. House of Representatives document. Journalist Jonathan Katz first pieced together Britt’s presentation of Jacinto Romero’s experience in a TikTok video on Friday.

Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/09/katie-britt-unrelated-sex-trafficking-story-state-of-the-union-rebuttal.html

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Biden rebutter Sen. Britt blasted for recycling 20-year-old sex traffic story to attack border policy [View all] ificandream Mar 9 OP

Always tell the truth and you'll never have to remember anything BOSSHOG Mar 9 #1

What they really hate NanaCat Mar 9 #18

Yes Indeed My Friend BOSSHOG Mar 9 #19

They can't connect how our joy for life NanaCat Mar 9 #22

And yet they're all such miserable beings. llmart Mar 9 #35

Yes. Most of them seem to lack the "empathy" part of the brain. Welcome to DU FailureToCommunicate Mar 10 #41

Republicans Remind Me Of This Scene smb Mar 10 #50

Sounded like the narrator of a Hallmark channel Easter special, but is lying the whole time. Quelle surprise? Comfortably_Numb Mar 9 #2

she is totally Hallmark Holiday special prodigitalson Mar 9 #13

Glad to see this is getting out. Senator Britts needs to be called out Deuxcents Mar 9 #3

Senator. She's the junior United States Senator from Alabama. rsdsharp Mar 9 #7

Thank you..fixed it. Deuxcents Mar 9 #8

Just elected in 2022; first political office she has held; got Trump's endorsement patphil Mar 10 #43

Yes, and all the other people on this side of the border... brush Mar 9 #11

Wake me when ANYTHING is done to ANYONE over this! Wednesdays Mar 9 #16

Unfortunately, you'll be asleep for a very long. jrthin Mar 9 #32

Qonservatives have an unhealthy obsession with sex trafficking IronLionZion Mar 9 #4

I hope this lie gets out more. How dare she exploit this young woman FloridaBlues Mar 9 #5

It made today's Washington Post, whose fact-checker gave it 4 Pinocchios. Ocelot II Mar 9 #9

Thanks for this info.. Deuxcents Mar 9 #12

Ms Jacinto may not have known of cartel involvement NanaCat Mar 9 #20

Be that as it may, the point is that Britt's story was false. Ocelot II Mar 9 #21

And, most importantly, the people who trafficked her NanaCat Mar 9 #23

In that case the "foreigners" were Americans crossing the border to rape minors in Mexico IronLionZion Mar 9 #28

Well that didn't go the way they expected tulipsandroses Mar 9 #6

histrionics and emotional instability in a kitchen prodigitalson Mar 9 #14

Unfortunately that stuff works on some stupid MAGA moms IronLionZion Mar 9 #30

Yes, the MAGA Morons are dug in. I am guessing they were trying to appeal to republican women who voted against trump tulipsandroses Mar 10 #45

Ya know, I doubt that was even her kitchen. rickford66 Mar 10 #44

This is a symptom of a larger issue angrychair Mar 9 #10

This is such a great summary of their M.O. LuvLoogie Mar 9 #33

Agreed. I read somewhere that Laken Riley's family declined their invitation tulipsandroses Mar 10 #46

As I watched that Chi67 Mar 9 #15

What they're doing NanaCat Mar 9 #24

Not to mention, thucythucy Mar 9 #26

Way to bollocks the headline, CNBC NanaCat Mar 9 #17

Extremely well said. Think. Again. Mar 9 #29

It was not even a drug cartel. Karla Jacinto Romero said a professional pimp trafficked her. SunSeeker Mar 9 #37

Good to see CNBC credited Jonathan Katz right off the bat. Hermit-The-Prog Mar 9 #25

The very, very sad part of this is... Think. Again. Mar 9 #27

Yes, it happens in every country, perpetrated by all kinds of people, including priests. nt SunSeeker Mar 9 #38

It would be wonderful if they used the time that way! ShazzieB Mar 10 #40

Just once azureblue Mar 9 #31

I see that a few phone calls are in order. niyad Mar 9 #34

The math didn't work when she told the story Renew Deal Mar 9 #36

" from 2004 to 2008 and because she was sex trafficked in Mexico."--NOT the USA per Sen Britt............. riversedge Mar 9 #39

The Washington Post Fact Check disclosed that the woman in question testified before Congress in 2015 about Martin68 Mar 10 #42

She's goebbeling orthoclad Mar 10 #47

But she was wearing a cross so she couldn't have been lying Botany Mar 10 #48

❤️ ✿❧🌿❧✿ ❤️ Lucinda Mar 10 #49

Blessed be the fruitloop! Sucha NastyWoman Mar 10 #51

Some people are like that . . . Aussie105 Mar 10 #52