General: Border 'Is Not Secure,' 18,000 'Little Boys' and Girls Cross as Sex Slaves

The just retired four-star Marine Corps general in charge if U.S. Southern Command said Wednesday that 18,000 adolescent girls, "little boys," hundreds of tons of cocaine and heroin, and tens of thousands of illegals cross the U.S.-Mexico border with ease every year.

"If all of that is getting in, no problem, then it would argue that our border is not secure," retired Gen. John F. Kelly said matter-of-factly at a Senate hearing on drug trafficking. He left the post, based in Miami, in January.

In just two minutes, he listed exactly what gets through and how fast items like drugs are distributed by criminal networks that control the flow in and out of the United States.

"18,000 young women, mostly adolescents, young girls, are trafficked into our country every year as sex workers. I don't think they know they are coming here to be sex workers," he told Senator Johnson.

"Some little boys as well to provide the same services," said Kelly, a celebrated general who served 45 years.

"We think that an unlimited amount of drugs get into this country. In the hundreds of tons. Not even counting marijuana, in the hundreds of tons, of cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine, gets in, no problem, gets all the way to Portland, Maine, as fast as it gets to San Diego," he added.

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