November 16, 2021

Mr. Kevin Mayer

Chief Executive Officer
TikTok
10100 Venice Blvd Suite 401
Culver City, CA 90232

Dear. Mr. Mayer,

We want to bring to your attention TikTok is actively assisting illegal immigrants coming to the
United States in violation of federal law. Therefore, we are requesting TikTok’s assistance in
identifying and preventing the unprecedented flow of illegal immigrants into and throughout the
United States and the role TikTok has played in facilitating this influx of migrants.
Transnational criminal organizations rely on a range of companies, organizations, and services to
get illegal immigrants across the southern border, then transport and house them once they
arrive. These are companies that law-abiding Americans use every day, but whose services are
being used to facilitate the flow of deadly drugs and humans illegally across the country.
Numerous reports and TikTok’s response have confirmed TikTok is allowing posts promoting
human smuggling, trafficking, and illegal entry into the United States to regularly reach its
billions of users and undermines the rule of law. TikTok is directly facilitating the crisis of
illegal immigration at our southern border and throughout the United States.
Over 1.6 million immigrants have been apprehended at the southern border this year alone. Even
more alarming, 160,000 aliens have been released into the United States with little to no
oversight. This presents a significant safety risk to the American people. Additionally, criminal
organizations reportedly made up to $14 million a day in February by trafficking women,
children, and families across the U.S.-Mexico border.
To reiterate, you and your staff could be subject to prosecution for violating Title 8, U.S.C. §
1324(a), which defines several distinct offenses related to aliens. Subsection 1324(a)(1)(i)-(v)
prohibits alien smuggling, domestic transportation of unauthorized aliens, concealing or
harboring unauthorized aliens, encouraging or inducing unauthorized aliens to enter the United
States, and engaging in a conspiracy or aiding and abetting any of the preceding acts. Subsection
1324(a)(2) prohibits bringing or attempting to bring unauthorized aliens to the United States in
any manner whatsoever, even at a designated port of entry. Subsection 1324(a)(3).
Given the potential misuse of taxpayer funds, violation of state and federal law and the continued
flow of illegal immigration, we request that you provide:
1. All internal or external reviews, studies, reports, data, analyses, and related
communications regarding your platform(s) and:
a. Human trafficking, smuggling, requesting asylum, and illegally entering the
United States.
b. Organizing and recruiting individuals to participate in mass migration caravans to
or across the southern border.
c. Organizing, recruiting and providing resources to harbor and facilitate illegal
immigration throughout the United States
2. All internal or external reviews, studies, reports, data, analyses, and related
communications regarding how your platform’s/platforms’ algorithms might contribute
to any of the factors described in request 1 above.
3. All accounts, users, groups, events, messaging forums, marketplaces, posts, or other user-
generated content that was sanctioned, suspended, removed, throttled deprioritized,
labeled, suppressed, or banned from your platform(s) related to any of the items detailed
in request 1 and 2.
4. All requests by law enforcement or other Federal, State, or local government officials or
agencies for information relating to any of the items detailed in request 1 above, and the
basis for such requests.
5. Internal communications, reports, documents, or other materials relating to internal
employee concerns about content on the platform associated with any of the items
detailed in request 1 above.
6. Additional screening measures to ensure your services are not being used to facilitate
human trafficking and human smuggling.
7. All company policies and procedures currently in place or being developed to ensure
your services are not used to facilitate human trafficking and human smuggling.
We sincerely hope TikTok is taking every step necessary to protect customers and the American
people by following federal law and preventing human trafficking.

Sincerely,

______________  _____________
Lance Gooden  Mary Miller
Member of Congress  Member of Congress