Biden Admin Policies Could Place Migrant Children In Homes With Sex Offenders

(Congress Report) – Attempts made by the White House to implement a more “humane” immigration policy are now leading to migrant children being handed off to American adults who have not submitted to criminal background checks, as per a Senate report that has been obtained by The Washington Free Beacon.

Joseph Simpson for the WFB writes, “The report, from Sen. Rob Portman (R., Ohio) and Republican members of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs, paints a devastating picture of how the Biden administration has mismanaged the southern border, which has seen more than 2.5 million crossings since he took office. Biden’s attempt to strike a contrast on immigration with his predecessor may have backfired, putting in danger thousands of minors who have now lost contact with federal authorities, according to the report.”

“In an effort to reverse Trump administration policies that President Joe Biden characterized on the campaign trail as cruel and inhumane, many unaccompanied alien children who come into the custody of American officials are now handed over to adults in the United States without any vetting, the report says. Those background checks would verify, among other things, that alien children are not given to guardians who are on the sex offender registry,” Simpson continues.

“Few executive actions under former president Donald Trump drew more ire from the media and left-wing activists than his ‘family separation policy.’ That policy, which ordered law enforcement to separate children from illegal alien parents apprehended at the southern border was meant to deter future illegal border crossings. But Biden, who, according to the Senate report, is overseeing an immigration system that is reducing ‘protections for [unaccompanied alien] children against abuse and trafficking,’ has avoided the same level of scrutiny from the press and Democrats,” Simpson says.

Federal agencies are responsible for releasing kids into the custody of a legal guardian here in the U.S. This includes the HHS and the Office of Refugee Resettlement. These organizations within the government told Republicans in the Senate they do not believe they are responsible for “protecting unaccompanied alien children from abuse and trafficking after placement with a sponsor.”

Wow. Just wow. How callous and uncaring can you be? That’s government bureaucracy for you. So much for all of that compassion we keep hearing about.

What’s really shocking about this statement is that it seems to be a direct contradiction of the statutory obligations of the agencies.

“[Health and Human Services has refused] to implement systems designed to ensure the safe release of children and accept legal responsibility for unaccompanied alien children after they are paired with a sponsor, as required by law,” the report says.

Simpson writes, “Reversing his predecessor’s hawkish immigration policies has been a priority for Biden from the start. Some of his first actions as president targeted the southern border, such as a February 2021 executive order that required ‘agencies to conduct a top-to-bottom review of recent regulations, policies, and guidance that have set up barriers to our legal immigration system.’ That move, followed by others announced the next month, were, Biden said, part of a strategy to create a ‘fair, safe, and orderly immigration system.'”

“The practice of waiving background checks for adults who take in alien children began shortly thereafter as the Biden administration prioritized the identification of adult caregivers in order to avoid keeping children in holding facilities or returning them to their home countries,” he continues in the article.

This also means that the federal authorities who, like it or not, are responsible for the overall wellbeing of these children, often knew very little about the individuals who were taking in alien children. HHS released close to 73,000 unaccompanied alien kids to sponsors in 2021, but completed less than 6,500 checks with state child abuse and neglect registries. Can you imagine the horrific nightmare some of these children are now no doubt living through because of the failure of these agencies to conduct background checks?

Add this to the list of reasons why we need to bring the border crisis to an end. The only reason the border is still practically wide open, allowing for millions of people to flood into the country, is because Democrats are desperate to inflate voter rolls and create future slaves for their party. It’s all about gaining control to bring about the transformation of this great republic into a Marxist shell that benefits the rich “elites” and oppresses the working man.

Everything has a price, right? Part of the cost of achieving this goal is the destruction of young children who are being used as political pawns. It’s deplorable in every way.

“Caring for unaccompanied alien children, children at significant risk of labor and sex trafficking and abuse, should be one of the top priorities of the United States government,” the report says. “Yet, this investigation reveals actions by the Biden administration that show the opposite—serious disregard for these children’s welfare.”

Simpson writes in his piece for WFB, “Although a record number of unaccompanied alien minors crossed the border in 2021, the federal government completed fewer child abuse and neglect checks than in the 2019 fiscal year, federal data show. Nor does HHS ‘adequately verify a sponsor’s identity and relationship with a child,’ by offering little guidance to case managers who are in charge of placing children in a domestic household, according to the report.”

“The Senate report includes a list of recommendations that would better protect migrant alien children, including the bipartisan Responsibility for Unaccompanied Minors Act. That law, Senate Republicans argue, would require HHS to create more sophisticated tracking and care systems for unaccompanied minor children. HHS would also be obligated to end the custody agreement between a sponsor and child if there is proof of abuse or neglect,” he adds.

“Without acknowledging its responsibility, correcting these issues, and better vetting potential sponsors, the Biden administration cannot ensure the safety of unaccompanied alien children,” the report concludes.

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