Rick Green [00:00:07] You find your way to the intersection of faith and culture. Thanks for joining us today on The WallBuilders Show, the place where we take on the hot topics of the day from a biblical, historical and constitutional perspective. By the way, you can check us out on our websites. WallBuilders.show is our radio site. Missed any shows recently and go listen to them there and it's also where you can most easily share the radio programs as you listen to them And then wallbuilders.com our main website that's a place where you get a lot of great tools just catch up on some of the news of the day. Find out where we've got events coming up. All of that available at wallbuilders.com. I'm Rick Green, America's Constitution here with David Barton and Tim Barton. Tim's a national speaker and pastor and president of WallBuilders David Barton, of course, America's premier historian and our founder here at WallBuilders. All three of us you can learn more about as well@wallbuilders.com. Today we're bringing you a special program from our Pro-family legislators conference, which is our once a year opportunity to bring in state reps to state senators from across the nation. Get them, you know, really exchanging ideas, hearing from great speakers, thinking about what they can do as they go back home to their states, in their state legislatures, to take back ground, to to restore liberty in their individual states, in every area, from education to law enforcement to you name it. And today, we're going to share a presentation that a speaker that has dealt with law enforcement, a fantastic sheriff out of out of Texas. What he shared with our legislators we're going to share with you today here on the WallBuilders radio program. We're going to share with you the WallBuilders Pro-family Legislators Conference presentations. We've had a lot of these over the last couple of months. If you missed any of those, do go to the website WallBuilders Dot Show and you can catch up. Well, let's jump right in with Sheriff Rayburn from Fort Worth, Texas. 

Sheriff Rayburn [00:01:42] It is such an honor to be here. But I tell you what, before I get started and talking about what I'm going to talk about, Dave Barton's vision has been absolutely incredible. And he and he and his bride raised an incredible son. And the Barton family has just done an incredible thing for America. I'm truly honored to be the sheriff of Tarrant County. It's the third largest county in Texas and about the 14th largest in the nation. And we are the largest red county. And we do that proudly. And and I always tell people that, come here and say that you're in Dallas County right now. We're just due west. So if you want to see Texas just headed west. You just head west and but it's exciting time we'reover there we have a and I'm going to get into human trafficking here in a minute but set it up is the we're kind of the entertainment capital. We have the World Series champion Texas Rangers from last year. We have all kinds of Six Flags and Family adventures. And we have the Dallas Cowboys right now. But that's a whole other story. But that all has an impact on what I'm about to talk about, abortion and human trafficking. And it's a scourge of the earth. And in 2017, when I came into office, there was nobody really doing anything about this. And we formed a task force, which is now the prominent task force in the United States that we have joined in with several partners, and we're moving in and about to we're about to rescue our thousand person out of human trafficking. But there's hope. And and what we do and how we do it. And I think that there's a lot of partners and manage is we heard all these incredible speakers, including Kelly Shackleford this morning. There is great hope and the church is getting off the bench and into the fight, and that's what we need and get government out of the way. We're going to talk about it. It is a pressing issue. It is prominent. It's here with us. And in sex trafficking being the lead and we as a family. We as a community, we as a state and county need to do some things about it. We've got some challenges coming up where the people that are coming out of that, I'm going to profile some of the people that we're taking out of sex trafficking and what's happening with it. We've already talked about this as a hub. We ranked second in the state right now behind Harris County. That is a hub, Harris County, Houston and a county, a little over 3 million people down there. And they they have a little bit more problems than we do. But I also want to talk about the vaulnerable population. And this is the big one right here is also include youth coming out of foster families and this, that and the other. And I'll profile a person that we have rescued out of out of trafficking a lot of times. Most of the time it's female, about 98% of the time there are males in it. But what we find is, is that when we start talking to these people and they might be a 22, 21, 23, 30 year old female as we suddenly find out that. That the maturity level is about 13 or 14 years old. There are therapists tell us that's when the trauma started. Most of them go into it at that age group and in their maturity level just almost comes to a dead halt. Now, the good news is we get them out of that and get them into some good therapy, plug them in to a great church. We've seen that chronological age over about two years. Come right back up. So there's hope. But where do those kids come from? And some of them are across the board, no question about it. But unfortunately, the majority of them are coming right here from our homes, our broken homes, our foster care program and those kind of things. And I don't know and I know we've got several states here representated. And by the way, welcome to Texas. We got beautiful weather right now. We get four these days a year. And and thank you all for being here. But this is not only here in Texas. This is in your community as well as I speak. And a lot of these things repeat. And what we're seeing is, is the CPS programs and the foster care programs, they're just not working. They're not working it out. And one of the things and this is my criticism, so Bill Wyman's opinion of the foster care program and CPS, what I mean by that is they have a goal to reconcile when they take children away, to reconcile them back to families. Well, how long are we going to let these people having problems experiment on the children that we're going to have to take care of later on? And the problem is, is that that reconciliation business goes on and you hear those hoary horror stories about kids being in ten homes, 15 homes, 20 homes and 30 homes. They give them back to the parents. They take them away from the parents. They give them back. And that yo yo begins and all of a sudden now the state comes in and terminates the right of the parent. And you've got a ten year old that needs to be adopted. That has a lot of baggage. Now let's go find that family. Let's go find that family. It sometimes and I'll tell you because we're in the weeds on this and my house and and in my office is sometimes that's like roping a wild mustang off the prairie, unfortunately, it can be a very difficult task. So I would love to see reform of those things of the of these kids that are being traumatized at young ages. And maybe if they were two years old or 18 months old, we can find a family. And I'll give you an example. In Tarrant County, I keep up with this. We've got 800 churches, we've got 250 kids up for adoption right now in Tarrant County that nobody's taking 250 kids. And again, we're not unique. This is all over the country, 250 kids and in Texas been made so easy that you can adopt a child out of the CPS process in Texas for nothing. So it's not an expensive task. And they'll come with Medicaid and a college education. But nobody's taken up. Because why? There are older children who have seen a lot of trauma who become a rational match. So this is that vulnerable population. And it's these kids that are rejected that end up in human trafficking. There's one estimate right now that we have 89,000 children and human trafficking in Texas. From the border and I'll talk about the border in a few minutes is. We believe in Tarrant County that we got over 2500 children that has come across the border somewhere scattered in Tarrant County alone. So we don't know where those kids are. We don't know who they're with or what they're doing. But we're looking for them. The demand for sex, by the way, you know, as you heard all this religious stuff, man, I have to get up and talk about sex, drugs and rock and roll. Is the demand for sex is part of the problem. So I've profiled. The person that we've seen in sex trafficking. Now I'll tell you, the person it's purchasing. I'll just give you the quick profile. They're the person that's sitting next to you, beyond you in the pew behind your church. They are middle aged men in their 30s and 40s. As a general rule, they're married with two kids. They they have they're successful in their job and they're the person that we're arresting. And right now, since since 2021, when Texas, by the way, for the rest of the state, it is a felony to purchase sex in Texas. Thank you state legislatures. Is that we have arrested over 800 individuals since 2021 when it became a felony. And who are these people? As I described them right there, the middle aged. Well, guess what? They're cops. Chancellors of universities. Pastors. Teachers. All the places that you think people are being prominent. Even attorneys. But these are the people that are purchasing. And then that profile, if I can lead you through it so I can tell you some of the root causes that maybe, maybe we could do something about is the root cause of that, guys, is as as we learn about how did they get here, how did this pastor get here in jail for this. Is what we saw was, is our what we're told or by our research is that they have their brain on. And then all of a sudden they start watching pornography. This is a root cause, guys. A root cause is pornography. They're saying that on an average, these people that we arrest for this are looking at a thousand images a day. Thousand images a day. So they do that for a time period. And then all of a sudden they want it to act it out. And that's when the purchase for sex and the girl being sex trafficking is told to fulfill that fantasy. So he gets confirmation at the end of the day. That's who we got. Now, in Texas, our legislators done an incredible job. And I'm not saying do this while you're in Texas because I don't know how this works on phone. I'm no good on technology. But if you try to Google Pornhub, which is the largest producer of pornography. And you're in Texas, it'll say, due to your Texas legislature taking away your freedom and rights, we no longer service people in Texas. And you're going to hear from one of our great legislators, Senator Phil King here in just a minute. And he's going to follow me and talking about the border after the lieutenant governor. And first thing, by the way, Phil's an incredible man, good Godly man and a great representative, but diverse to him for just a second and just talk about him, how incredible he and his family are. The first thing he said to me this morning, he says, you're here and you're wearing a tie. And I said, Yes, I am. But you have a good head of hair. I don't. And that's confirmed by the Texas Tribune. When they were measuring up candidates, they said Phil King had a good head of hair. Which is a liberal place don't subscribe to that. But anyway, the demand for the sex and as you is, that fell off and unfortunately they are walking right by you. They are in our midst. And here they are stepped in that that horrific issue of pornography. And that will be our root cause. And I'll talk about this is something that we need to do that we're fast passing on is AI, AI are now creating images. I are now creating sounds. And it's specifically mirrored in the children's area. And we're dealing with child porn. And the federal government actually does a better job of prosecuting it than the state. We need to enhance those crimes because in our task force has arrested people with child pornographers. Common But we arrested one who is a world player, meaning he he sells and traffics around the world. And he had five terabytes of child pornography, five terabytes. I can't even imagine what that is, but that's an incredible amount. These are the people that we're dealing with. And by the way, he's going to jail for about 40 years. 

Rick Green [00:13:48] I've just got to interrupt the sheriff for just a second. Going to take a quick break. We'll be right back. You're listening to The WallBuilders Show. 

Rick Green [00:15:00] Welcome back to The WallBuilders Show. We were listening to Sheriff Rayburn speaking at the Pro-family legislators conference. Had to take a quick break. Let's jump right back in with the sheriff. 

Sheriff Rayburn [00:15:08] What we have been doing in our task forces is we've been trying to raise awareness. We're going to schools. We want it taught in schools, and we want it talked about in schools. We want those things to happen. And as I talk about that victim again, and I don't mean to scare any parents and here is that typically broken home. And I'm going to give you a couple of cases real quick that we have work is, for instance, we had a 14 year old who was in foster care. She was tired of her foster parents. They were tired of her. She is leaves she is walks out the door. Well, she walked a pretty good ways. And she was on a Wal-Mart parking lot. And a guy pulled up, says, you okay? And she says, I'm just I'm just walking. He says, Are you hungry? She says I am. Well, the next thing she knows, she's in his car and the next thing she knows, she's in a hotel room and the next thing she knows she's being beat and told own you now. Now, we rescued her about 3 or 4 weeks into it, and she had been sold to two other traffickers and multiple men. And she's out of it. But she was 14 years old. 14 years old. Broken home. In foster care, nobody was looking for her, the kids that are left behind. Then another story about a 15 year old that was very similar deal. Now, she was from a broken home. Nobody was looking for her. And she gets picked up and she start traveling. And this little girl had a in a I don't know, there's probably some legal arguments about it, but she had like a photographic memory. So she was able to capture some of the people that was buying her for a period of time. She was able to remember who they were and identify their names. And we got her out. But one of the the scourges of this is this man came in and paid for her, had to have her for 30 minutes, and then he wanted her for extra time. And in front of her asked her trafficker, after I finish the act, what would it cost to beat her? And the price was about 250 bucks so that he could beat her. A 15 year old girl. We rescued that little girl. She was able to identify that scumbag, and he's in jail for 60 years. So we're going after him with the gust of a hound dog. But I will tell you, as as the things go on, that there's more things going on and we're trying to identify them. We've got some wonderful, wonderful partners, some 501C 3. We've got some people here, the Joco Booyens in ministry, which you'll see doing an incredible job with us. They're partners and they've just bought 75 acres and we're trying to get places for victims and we're trying to believe that the churches should be taking care of them, not us. And so that's some of the things that we're doing. And we think that we will be a we plan on being the best in the United States so that people can see, hey, this is how you deal with sex trafficking and the victims that come out of it. And we're going to continue to do some of that legislative. Obviously we just want penalty strengthening for traffickers. But in Tarrant County, a good Tarrant County jury, we got a guy that was trafficking children and they gave him life and penitentiary just three weeks ago, and he will not breathe free air again. And so we're excited about that. As far as identifying these people, it's always a constant battle because sometimes you don't know. We ended up arresting a junior in high school that was a trafficker. She was a female that had been trafficked when she was in eighth grade. She was doing it and she turned around and started trafficking two girls in eighth grade when she got into as a junior. So again, we need to penetrate the school system and we need to educate these kids at a very early age that the dangers are there in what to look for and who's looking for you. And these people are grooming it. We arrested a guy that came all the way from Germany that groomed a girl for over three months, and he flew into town. And here he is 40 years old and picking up this 15 year old arranged meeting. And we got she ended up in Oklahoma City, but we got her back and he went to jail. But you know what? The first thing she wanted to start to talk to her mother. Please don't let them press charges. That bonding occurred. Or we have unbound and the net, which is of services here, they give legal aid, they do those kind of things. We have everything set up because a lot of times we've arrested people out of the trafficker and rescued the victim. And the traffickers have been using their I.D. and all of a sudden the IRS is coming after the victim. For, you know, money laundering. Is this still an underground place? People are not talking about it. People are not wanting to be a part of it and they ignore it. And it's still happening. But there's a sense that that if, you know, like I said, the profile of this victim is often that child from a broken home who nobody cares about. You know, one of the first juveniles that we rescued out was working at McDonald's. She was she was in ninth grade and she started working at McDonald's. Why? Because the manager agreed to feed her. She didn't have food at home. Nobody cared about her. And this woman came in, a woman trafficker and groomed her and finally said, my my cousin has a call program where you can work a phone station and make $20 an hour. And he's doing interviews at Hotel X. Well, that went south and she all of a sudden was sucked into human trafficking nobody was looking for. And something miraculous happened in that particular case. Is that she had had it and she'd been on drugs. They had her drugged up for over about three weeks. Well, like any other entrepreneur, you cut back on the cost of the drugs and she was a little bit sober. And a John, for lack of a better term, walked into the room for traffickers, three doors down, walked into the room, had purchased her, and this brave little girl looked at him in the eyes and she says, I'm not here on my own accord. I'm not a willing participant here. And that John said, put your clothes on. I'll get you out of here. And he rescued her. He rescued her. Now, I'll tell you, he didn't directly bring her to us. He gave her to somebody else who came and brought her to us. And we were able to go after her traffickers successfully. But I've got to tell you, I've been looking for him for four years to give him a community award. He hadn't showed up. But the trafficking is alive and well out there. And the thing is, is every state legislature needs to look at their laws. I think we're doing a great job in Texas. Make it a felony to purchase sex in your state. Let's stand shoulder to shoulder,lets enhanced penalties for traffickers that we know are out there doing it. Lets inhance penalties to these people selling child porn to make sure that we take them off and out of society. We'll make sure that that happens. And then finally, as I said, as is Phil will follow me in a few minutes on the border is the border impact to Tarrant County. I can do it. I can. Or 600 miles away from the border. Let me share with you real quick and you can do the statistics here. In 2020, my narcotic claim took $3.5 million worth of drugs off the street. In that $3.5 million, you were paying $80 for a gram of methamphetamine and $30 for a fentanyl people. In 2021, something happened. Well, we took $22 million worth of drugs off the street. And the price of methamphetamine dropped like a rock fentanylyou could then get for free $4 a pill, you can get a gram of methamphetamine for 14, 15 bucks. Because we opened our borders. Our mental health issue raged. And I will tell you that 66%. I've got 4100 prisoners this morning in my jail and 66% of them are protectors of mental health issues. All drug driven guys, this drug driven, including including high THC marijuana, synthetic K2. Synthetic K2 is leading the way with schizophrenia in our country. And we in our psychiatry world told me that ten years ago that 3% of the nation had mental health problems. Today it's at eight. That's a lot of people. That is an incredible lot of people. And I will tell you from those that came from afar and you do it is Governor Abbott's done an incredible job on our border. He has stood between good and evil down there, and he's deployed resources like a wartime general, and now he's bused them to your state. I'm sorry. But what a message that sent. And I'll tell you what, Governor. Governor Abbott story, before I pass off the torch is I got a call from a friend of mine who's a major county sheriff up in Michigan in Detroit. And he said, would your governor talk to my mayor in Detroit. And I said, well, I'll be glad to pass the message on. I said, But I'm curious, Mark. I said, what is your mayor want with my governor? He says he wants to make sure that he knows we're not a sanctuary city. And we we we work with ICE. And I was able to share that with the governor. And he laughed. And then he said, We will see. But anyway, I'm honored to be here today amongst some incredible historians. Some great legal scholars, people who all love Jesus and love David's presentationa while ago that heaven does have an immigration policy because I've been hammered on that, too. We have a we're the largest county in the United States that has 287 G program, which are people inside the jail are sworn to. And they can they can put holes on people. And I had that hammered that, you know, Jesus would want everybody to come in. And I said, I don't think so. I don't think so. Not the Bible I read. But we have a new president. So I think there's great hope and great news. Thank you all for coming here and taking the time. If we can do anything for you over in Tarrant County, come on. And if any of you really want to experience Texas, we can have you on a bull by 9:00 this evening. God bless you all. Thank you. 

Rick Green [00:26:01] I'll fix that with Sheriff Bill Rayburn you were listening to at the Pro-family Legislators conference. Several other presentations from the conference available to you at our website. WallBuilders.Show. You can go there any time and scroll through the archives of the last few weeks and months and get more of those pro-family legislative conference presentations. And we'll have some more for you in the coming weeks and months. But I do want to encourage you to send some of those specific programs to your legislators. So if you know your state rep or senator or even if you don't send it to them and say, hey, would you like to join the Pro-family legislators network and be a part of this conference once a year, have them go check out our website and learn more about it. We'd love to have them come be a part of that weekend, this coming November when we have the 2025 conference. Thanks so much for listening to The WallBuilders Show.