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Biden's State of the Union speech: "It tries to create an association in people's minds between Joe Biden, the border, Mexicans and sexual violence"
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Alabama Republican Senator Katie Britt reacted to President Joe Biden's State of the Union address in an attention-grabbing video.
It wasn't just the fact that Britt gave her counter-speech in a kitchen that attracted attention.
“Our future begins at kitchen tables like this one,” said the Republican.
Her story about a Mexican woman who fell victim to sex trafficking at the age of twelve is far more serious.
The senator attributes the blame for the fate of the woman, whose name Britt does not mention, to the current government.
The story is as shocking as it is misleading, as independent US journalist Jonathan Katz has revealed.
On Friday he reported on TikTok that during his research on the Mexican woman Britt had already mentioned on previous occasions, he quickly discovered her identity.
The woman is Karla Jacinto Romero, a Mexican citizen who was forced into sexual slavery for four years and has reported on her experiences several times.
Last year, Jacinto attended an event near the Texas-Mexico border, as did three senators, including Katie Britt.
Katz's research also revealed that Jacinto, according to his own statement, was kidnapped in Mexico City in 2002 and that the thousands of rapes all took place in Mexico.
She was finally rescued in 2006.
The shocking incidents to which Britt refers did not occur during Biden's time as president or in the United States.
Britt nevertheless cited Jacinto's fate as an example of what she saw as Biden's disastrous border policy and emphasized that "we would not agree if this happened in a third world country."
Because, said the Republican: "This is the United States of America, and in my opinion it is high time we started behaving like it."
Katz cannot leave the misleading chain uncommented either: "She tries to create an association in people's minds between Joe Biden, the border, Mexicans, people of Latin American descent - something like that - and sexual violence.
And she does it based on a blatant lie.”
According to the New York Times, Jacinto did not immediately respond to a request for comment - unlike Sean Ross, Senator Britt's spokesman: "The story that Senator Britt told was 100 percent correct," he said in one Statement available to The Times.
There are more innocent victims of this type of “disgusting, brutal human trafficking by the cartels” than ever before.
"The Biden administration's policies - the policies in this country that the president falsely claims are humane - have empowered the cartels and acted as a magnet for historic levels of migrants making the dangerous journey to our border make."
Britt's spokesman did not initially have an answer as to what responsibility the current president had for what Jacinto experienced or what an anecdote about sex trafficking in another country had to do with US border policy.
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