Congressman Chip Roy (R-Texas) has ordered the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to release all records related to tens of thousands of unaccompanied alien children (UAC). is requested to be saved. After they were released to the United States, the agency could no longer contact them.
In a letter to Health Department Secretary Xavier Becerra and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Roy said: I will write Agencies “must preserve all existing and future records and materials relating to HHS.” [Office of Refugee Resettlement]and DHS policy regarding UAC effective January 20, 2021.
In particular, Roy said the agency will “response to this Congressional inquiry, including all documents, communications, and other electronic information that is or may be responsive to this Congressional investigation,” related to UACs whose whereabouts the agency no longer knows. “The destruction of information should be prevented.” .
“…under the Biden-Harris Administration, HHS has lost track of an estimated 150,000 UACs, in addition to other allegations that there is insufficient scrutiny to determine whether UACs are being abused. “This means that the whereabouts and welfare of these minors cannot be accounted for. They are a potential danger to the American public,” Roy wrote.
At the same time, the DHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) found that Immigration and Customs Enforcement: (ICE) Failed to Serve Immigration Court Appearance Notices on More than 320,000 UACsThis limited ICE's opportunities to contact UACs when they left HHS custody, thereby reducing the opportunity to verify their safety. [Emphasis added]
In fact, as reported by Breitbart News, the DHS IG revealed that HHS and DHS released more than 365,000 UACs into the interior of the United States from fiscal year 2021 to fiscal year 2023.
Hundreds of thousands of these UACs have been placed with adult sponsors and HHS and DHS have lost contact with them, leading to “human trafficking, exploitation, and forced labor,'' according to the IG report. ” are at risk. Not a biological parent — in the United States
Earlier this year, the HHS IG published The report reveals that in 22 percent of cases, HHS officials did not make appropriate and safe follow-up calls to check with UACs who were released to adult sponsors in the United States.
In fiscal year 2023, the Department of Labor found that: 88 percent Child labor trafficking has increased compared to 2019. In 2023, nearly 6,000 children, many of them UACs, were found illegally engaged in cruel and often life-threatening work.
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