WASHINGTON — Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala., has come under fire in recent days over allegations that she misrepresented the story of a sex trafficking victim in the Republican response to the State of the Union last week. An NBC News review of her remarks over the last year shows it’s an anecdote she’s used often to criticize the Biden administration’s border policies, though the victim she references was trafficked through Mexico roughly two decades ago.
“I have talked to these young women, and it wasn’t that they were raped every day, it was how many times a day they were raped,” Britt said at a press conference on human trafficking at the border on July 20, 2023. During another press conference on September 20, 2023, regarding Biden’s “Border Catastrophe,” Britt again referenced Jacinto Romero’s account of rape.
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