House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) has subpoenaed Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra to report unaccompanied foreign nationals in hopes of getting them released before court. It requested information on the authorities' response to criminals and gang members posing as unaccompanied children (UACs). America.
Tuesday, Jordan announced He said he subpoenaed Becerra, suggesting HHS has been less aggressive in its treatment of UACs found to be criminals and gang members.
HHS oversees the UAC program, in which children arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border are temporarily placed in the custody of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) before being transferred to HHS custody. The child is then placed in the care of an adult sponsor. Not my real parents.
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Since last June, Jordan said, the Judiciary Committee has been collecting all sorts of information about where UACs are placed, the vetting process for adult sponsors, and what authorities do if a UAC turns out to be a criminal or gang member. He said he has repeatedly asked HHS to do so. .
HHS has not been able to disclose the total number of UACs the agency has detained known sex offenders or the number of adult sponsors denied because they are convicted felons, including convicted murderers. No, Jordan insists.
From FY2021 to FY2023, 370,000 UACs were released into the interior of the United States by Biden's DHS. The majority of UACs (61 to 66 percent) are male, and 69 percent to 72 percent are between 15 and 18 years old.
As Breitbart News reported, Becerra has not been able to guarantee that UAC inspects 100 percent of adult sponsors' homes before providing care. This is a requirement of many pet adoption programs, Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-Ariz.) previously pointed out. .
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last year, new york times More than 85,000 UACs released into the interior of the United States were lost in the system after being sent by HHS to live with adult sponsors (most of whom were not their biological parents). released a bombshell report suggesting that
HHS's loss of contact with these UACs coincides with a boom in labor trafficking among immigrant children. The labor trafficking pipeline has gotten so out of control that the Department of Labor's Inspector General has launched an investigation into the Biden administration's handling of the problem.
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