House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) seeks records on unaccompanied alien children (UACs) released into the United States who are behind some of the most “heinous criminal acts.” , subpoenaed Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra. against Americans. ”
Tuesday, Fox News Digital’s Adam Shaw appeared first reportJordan sent a subpoena to Becerra requesting all information related to various cases of UACs that ultimately victimized American citizens after being resettled by HHS with adult sponsors.
“The Judiciary Committee is reviewing the Department of Health and Human Services’ mismanagement of UAC deployments,” Jordan said. write:
This mismanagement resulted in UACs released by HHS to U.S. sponsors not being vetted and committing heinous criminal acts against U.S. persons. To that end, we requested the case files of several UACs who were charged with committing crimes while in the United States after being released from HHS. Your response without mandatory procedures is woefully inadequate. [Emphasis added]
Since June 2023, the Committee has requested several HHS case files regarding criminal aliens charged with serious and violent crimes, including theft, brutal assault, and murder. The committee has followed up on that request multiple times. After months of nonresponse, on September 28, 2023, HHS finally issued a response containing various baseless excuses to justify the requested file hold on criminal alien cases. Among other excuses, HHS cited concerns about the privacy interests of criminal aliens and argued that the commission lacked a legitimate oversight purpose. To obtain case files. [Emphasis added]
Jordan said Becerra has repeatedly failed to provide records regarding violent criminal UACs to the House Judiciary Committee. That failure was “unacceptable,” Jordan wrote.
Most recently, members of the MS-13 gang arrived in the United States as UACs via the southern border in October 2015. arrested Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents after he was convicted of child sex crimes in the sanctuary state of Maryland.
Jordan said last month that HHS declined to provide details about its response to UACs who are found to be criminals or gang members after being placed with adult sponsors in the United States, and similarly A subpoena was sent to Mr. Becerra.
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.
WATCH: Whistleblower: Federal government facilitates ‘multi-billion dollar child trafficking operation’ at US border
HHS oversees the UAC program. Under this program, children arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border are placed temporarily in the custody of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) before being transferred to HHS custody and eventually being placed in the custody of an adult sponsor. Children are left in the care of children (most of whom are adults). Not their biological parents.
Federal whistleblowers have called the UAC program a “multibillion-dollar child trafficking operation” that enriches Mexican drug cartels and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs).
last year, new york times A bombshell report suggests that more than 85,000 UACs released into the interior of the United States went missing after being sent to live with adult sponsors by HHS.
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 White House’s handling of the matter.
From FY2021 to FY2023, 370,000 The UAC was released into the interior of the United States by HHS in Becerra. The majority of UACs (61 to 66 percent) are male, and 69 percent to 72 percent are between 15 and 18 years old.
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