California gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton just said the quiet part out loud about former Biden HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra — and it's even worse than you thought. In an exclusive interview with Breitbart, the former Fox News commentator accused Becerra of actively dismantling the vetting process for unaccompanied migrant children, effectively pushing them into the hands of child sex traffickers.
But sure, tell us again how the border was "secure."
Hilton appeared on The Alex Marlow Show — hosted by Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow on the Salem Radio Network — and didn't mince words. He drew a sharp distinction between the sanitized version of events and what actually happened at HHS under Becerra's watch.
"People say he, when he was HHS Secretary for Biden he lost 85,000 migrant kids," Hilton said. "No, he didn't lose them. He pushed them out of the system without caring where they went, dismantled the vetting and pushed migrant kids into the arms of child sex traffickers."
Read that again. Eighty-five thousand children. Not misplaced paperwork. Not a bureaucratic hiccup. Children shoved out the door of a federal agency with zero regard for where they ended up — or with whom.
This wasn't incompetence. This was policy.
The Biden administration spent four years telling us their border approach was "humane" and "compassionate." Meanwhile, HHS under Becerra was running what amounted to a conveyor belt from the border to God-knows-where, and the people on the receiving end weren't exactly running after-school programs.
We spent years watching the same Democrats who lecture us about "the children" at every budget hearing look the other way while actual children disappeared into a system they deliberately broke. They didn't want vetting. Vetting slows things down. Vetting creates backlogs. Backlogs create bad headlines. So they gutted the safeguards and called it progress.
Now Steve Hilton is running for governor of California and making this a centerpiece of his campaign. Smart move. Because while the national media tried to memory-hole the entire unaccompanied minor catastrophe, the people of California — a border state that bore the brunt of Biden's open-borders experiment — haven't forgotten.
The establishment would love for us to move on. They'd love for "85,000 lost children" to become one of those statistics that everyone knows but nobody talks about, like the national debt or the number of times Adam Schiff lied on camera.
But here's the thing about lost children — they don't just become a talking point. They're real kids who ended up in real danger because a real Cabinet secretary decided that processing speed mattered more than child safety.
Xavier Becerra should be answering questions under oath, not enjoying a cushy post-government life. And every single person who enabled that policy — from the White House on down — should have to look at that number and explain exactly what "humane" means when 85,000 children vanish on your watch.
Hilton's naming names. It's about time somebody did.