“The Biden Administration facilitated mass child sex trafficking,” Miller says, citing migrant child smuggling case
Stephen Miller, a senior Trump administration adviser, accused the Biden administration of enabling “mass child sex trafficking” in a social media post that pointed to a newly filed federal case involving an Alaska man charged with paying smugglers to bring a Honduran mother and child into the United States.
The Biden Administration facilitated mass child sex trafficking. Under Biden, ICE is now shutting it down and saving countless lives. https://t.co/T3qcUhxTCk
— Stephen Miller (@StephenM) February 9, 2026
“The Biden Administration facilitated mass child sex trafficking,” Miller wrote on X, adding, “Under Biden, ICE is now shutting it down and saving countless lives,” while linking to a post by Daily Wire immigration reporter Jennie Taer.
Taer reported that prosecutors charged Douglas Price, a Chugiak, Alaska resident described as a registered sex offender, after investigators alleged he paid roughly $5,000 to fund the mother and child’s trip to the border and intended to take custody of the child through the federal sponsorship process for unaccompanied minors.
NEW: A registered sex offender paid smugglers to bring a child across the border from Honduras and was luckily stopped from taking the young girl into his care thanks to Trump's crackdown on the sponsorship program for unaccompanied alien children.
— Jennie Taer (@JennieSTaer) February 9, 2026
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A Justice Department news release said Price, 44, was charged in the Southern District of Texas “for paying to bring illegal aliens into the country.” The release described an alleged payment arrangement tied to human smuggling and said the case involves an unaccompanied minor.
In the court filings referenced by Alaska media, investigators said the child traveled with her mother but was separated before crossing and was later encountered by U.S. authorities; prosecutors alleged the pair planned to reunite with Price in Alaska.
Miller’s post used the case to make a sweeping claim about the Biden administration. That allegation is not established by the criminal complaint in the Price case, which centers on individual conduct and an alleged smuggling arrangement. The Justice Department statement announcing the charge does not attribute the alleged conduct to Biden-era policy decisions, and it does not characterize the case as evidence of “mass” trafficking.
The dispute lands in a long-running political fight over how the federal government handles unaccompanied migrant children. By law, many unaccompanied minors are transferred from the Department of Homeland Security to the Office of Refugee Resettlement, within the Department of Health and Human Services, which places children with vetted sponsors — often family members — while immigration cases proceed.
The sponsorship system has drawn criticism for years from both parties and outside watchdogs, including concerns that some children have been released to unsafe sponsors or end up in exploitative situations. Federal agencies have announced enforcement and welfare-check initiatives in response, including an ICE-led effort focused on potential abuse and exploitation of unaccompanied children placed with sponsors.
The Trump administration previously rolled back restrictions allowing ORR to share sponsors’ immigration status with law enforcement, a change supporters framed as closing loopholes and critics warned could deter legitimate sponsors from coming forward.
Taer’s post that Miller cited described the Price case as being stopped “thanks to” a crackdown on the sponsorship program. The federal charging announcement states Price has been charged; the allegations have not been proven in court, and Price is presumed innocent.
