The Republican who criticized Biden's border management cited a 20-year-old sex trafficking case. Alabama Senator Katie Britt responded to the president's State of the Union address with the story of a young woman raped in Mexico for years, when speaking about the immigration crisis.

But the case did not happen under the current Administration. Britt traveled to the Del Río, Texas, sector on the border with Mexico in January 2023 with Republican Senators Marsha Blackburn and Cindy Hyde-Smith.