Xavier Becerra ignored minors exposed to trafficking, claims gubernatorial rivalSteve Hilton

Republican candidate Steve Hilton is escalating his attacks on rival Xavier Becerra, unveiling more bombshell allegations that the Democratic gubernatorial candidate dangerously mishandled thousands of migrant children who were held in the state.Video shared with The California Post shows the Hilton campaign talking to an anonymous whistleblower who claims she worked at the Pomona Fairplex.It was one of three California locations among multiple emergency intake sites set up across the country to process a surge of unaccompanied migrant children under the Biden administration, when Becerra was serving as Health and Human Services secretary.In the new video, the whistleblower alleged that workers who tried to protect migrant children were retaliated against.For example, the unnamed whistleblower claims she found out the sponsor of a 13-year-old child from El Salvador was actually wanted by international police.

A federal worker who was trying to dig into the case ended up being escorted out, said the whistleblower, whom The Post hasn’t independently spoken to.“Mind you, she’s working for the government.She’s trying to protect these children,” she said in the video, “and she got escorted out.

She got fired.”“That was the, I guess you could call it the culture at the Pomona Fairplex,” she added.In another case, another worker was doing a background check on an address that over 200 migrant children had been sent to, the whistleblower alleged.The worker saw on Google Maps that location had no homes, just a bunch of containers, and called an anti-trafficking number.That worker was terminated the next day, the whistleblower claimed.Becerra knew about all this, she alleged, but he would visit the Fairplex only to do photo ops.

“They knew exactly what was going on.Their concern was speed,” she said.

“They wanted the children out right away rather than the concern for safety of the child.So it’s speed over safety.”She said after a visit by Bec...