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Under the current administration, the FBI has shifted from reactive to relentless. Director Kash Patel says 7,500 children have already been rescued, not counted, rescued, and the message echoing through every trafficking corridor is unmistakable:
“If you mean to harm a child, we will find you.” Kash Patel
Patel has the chops to get the job done. He has the skill, experience, toughness, and capability to accomplish the task successfully. He previously served in several national‑security roles, including Chief of Staff to the Secretary of Defense, Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence, and acting Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
This is a manhunt. Massive federal and local task forces are ripping apart trafficking pipelines, smashing encrypted predator rings, and hunting fugitives who once believed they were untouchable. Eight of the FBI’s 10 most wanted captured in 17 months, a pace that sends a chill through every criminal network still standing.
But the threat is evolving. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children warns of a surge in financial sextortion; tens of thousands of kids targeted, cornered, terrified. Criminals push them onto encrypted apps where fear grows fast and hope feels far away.
NCMEC’s message to families is blunt and urgent: Don’t pay. Don’t comply. Get help. The blackmailer is the criminal, not the child.
In Washington, lawmakers are scrambling to catch up. Bipartisan legislation to finally make online coercion of minors a federal crime because predators have adapted faster than the law, and children have paid the price.
The fake news media doesn't want you to know that while agents rescue kids, they’re also dismantling the criminal ecosystems that feed on America’s communities: murders down, fentanyl seizures up, gangs collapsing under the weight of coordinated takedowns.
This is what a turning point looks like.
Predators are running. Children are being found. And the shadows that once protected the worst among us are disappearing, one raid at a time.
Thank you to the men and women on point in the FBI and other agencies as well!!
Anna Miller, mother and grandmother
Camas
