The Department of Health and Human Services begins investigating thousands of cases of unaccompanied immigrant children who may have fallen into the hands of sexual predators and traffickers due to loose review policies under the Biden administration I'm doing it.
Internal memos viewed by the posts have been made that the Refugee Resettlement Office (ORR) ignores obvious safety risks, promptly release young people under the Unaccompanied Children's Program (UAC) and are vulnerable. It details how it created situations that easily target children.
The report details awful cases in which immigrant sponsors provided images that were clearly fake or doctors to obtain custody of their children.
One photo was submitted by a man who wanted custody of the immigrant child, but showed that the child's mother took a rough photo on the image to claim it had a connection with him. Mother's legs were cut out in a failed clip art job.
In another case, the man used a Guatemalan photo ID, which was clearly not him.
Another case involved an immigrant, aged 23, who claimed he was a minor in a federal facility with immigrant children. The man reportedly was asked by the children, “Do you want to have sex?”
“It was all about detaining them as soon as possible, from the time the Border Patrol encountered them until the ORR found the sponsorship,” a senior HHS source told the post.
“When they were responding safely, that's what created this issue.”
A study by the HHS Office of the Geaner Curse discovered “significant issues” of review sponsors. This allowed children to “exploit or unsafe living conditions” or “force or exploit the child” of adults.
Data reveals that in recent years, less than 1% of sponsorship applications have been rejected, indicating a major gap in program monitoring.
The report states that investigators have explained these horrifying cases to Biden HHS Chief of Staff and Deputy Chief of Staff Xavier Beterra about the issue, but have “did not take any meaningful steps” to address the issue. It is said that.
“This is a heinous neglect of the Biden administration's obligations and must be fixed immediately to protect vulnerable children,” the report said.
As of May 2024, 291,000 immigrant children had arrived in the United States as unaccompanied minors set as freely as the date they would appear in immigration court. That is, there was no way to track their whereabouts.
In addition, 32,000 additional children were released to the United States on hearing date by Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) but were subsequently unable to appear in court. Report on 14 pages This tracked the period from October 2018 to September 2023.
A federal whistleblower said last August that he believed many of these children were already in the hands of criminals and sex traffickers.
The main purpose of the HHS probe is to ensure that such things can happen again, the HHS source said.
Sources from the Trump administration also want to seal a pipeline that will allow unaccompanied immigrant children to be harmed.
“What we want to do with our internal investigation is to go back and make sure we're looking under all the stones that have been turned over,” an HHS source said.
The Refugee Resettlement Bureau's report outlined drastic changes to facilitate sponsor review and oversight.
The proposed reforms include implementation methods such as fingerprinting and mandatory DNA testing to check the identity of immigrant children's sponsors, increase the prevalence of background checks in caregivers, and facial recognition and post-release. includes strengthening technology solutions such as monitoring.
“Fingerprint recommendations, already implemented. And it will be published in field guidance and sponsors who are all adult household members will be fingerprinted and checked and verified before it is released. Repeat But it seems completely obvious, but it wasn't happening,” the source told the post.
The second senior HHS source said the change was in stark contrast to the previous administration.
“In the last administration, they didn't even have sponsor fingerprints. We didn't know who we were saving children.”
