Since 2015, over 300,000 unaccompanied minors have crossed the US border from Central America, Mexico, and other parts of the world. These children, often as young as five, arrive without parents or guardians. Some are smuggled across by cartels, others arrive with little more than phone numbers scribbled on their arms or clothes. “American taxpayers are essentially paying for child sex trafficking from start to end,” Morgan Lerette, a former Blackwater contractor and Army intelligence officer, starkly alleged to The Post.Like adults, minors are released from federal custody after 72 hours. If Homeland Security agents have not been able to contact a relative or guardian by that time, they are funneled through a labyrinth of federal agencies, private contractors, and nonprofit organizations. Once out of federal view, Lerette says they are given to non-government organizations which conveniently allows for “plausible deniability” from the Department of Homeland Security for anything which later happens to them.