by Luke Rosiak at The Daily Wire
The Department of Human Services has lost at least 85,000 children who crossed the border illegally as “unaccompanied minors” after placing them with “sponsors” who may be trafficking the children into prostitution or forced labor, according to multiple government whistleblowers who laid out the process to a Senate panel Tuesday.
Whistleblowers assigned to process minors near the border said that children were being placed with people who clearly were not their relatives and when there was evidence of abuse and trafficking.
One whistleblower, assigned to process minors near the border, said that after a group alerted supervisors to the fact that children were being placed with people who clearly were not their relatives and that there was evidence of sadistic abuse, the Biden administration’s DHS Office of Refugee Resettlement took her off the job and retaliated against her, instead of acting on the facts they had uncovered.
The Biden administration apparently shoveled children out to the homes of poorly-vetted volunteers as fast as it could to avoid holding them in secure facilities — Joe Biden had painted those as his rival Donald Trump putting “kids in cages,” and wanted to avoid those optics at all costs, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said.
But Biden’s alternative, as detailed by government employees tasked with personally interacting with those children, was far less humane — 500,000 children were flown or bussed to the homes of people who were sometimes strangers. The Biden administration loosened rules on background checks. DHS’s oversight amounted to a single phone call to the children 30 days later. By that time, many of the children could not be reached — they were simply missing.
The panel was perhaps the most devastating in the history of the border crisis—so much so that the Democrats who control the Senate apparently refused to cooperate, leading Sens. Grassley, Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana), Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin), and John Cornyn (R-Texas) to hold it unofficially.
Tara Lee Rodas has had a 20-year career in the federal government, and volunteered to go to the border when the Biden administration put out an all-hands-on-deck call for employees from any agency because the border was so overwhelmed. Rodas speaks Spanish and her husband is from El Salvador, so she signed up to help kids.
She worked at the Pomona Fairplex Emergency Intake Site,…
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