Posted on 01/29/2016 11:06:31 AM PST by grundle
The Obama administration failed to protect thousands of Central American children who have flooded across the U.S. border since 2011, leaving them vulnerable to traffickers and to abuses at the hands of government-approved caretakers, a Senate investigation has found.
The Office of Refugee Resettlement, an agency of the Department of Health and Human Services, failed to do proper background checks of adults who claimed the children, allowed sponsors to take custody of multiple unrelated children, and regularly placed children in homes without visiting the locations, according to a 56-page investigative report released Thursday.
And once the children left federally funded shelters, the report said, the agency permitted their adult sponsors to prevent caseworkers from providing them post-release services.
Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) initiated the six-month investigation after several Guatemalan teens were found in a dilapidated trailer park near Marion, Ohio, where they were being held captive by traffickers and forced to work at a local egg farm. The boys were among more than 125,000 unaccompanied minors who have surged into the United States since 2011, fleeing violence and unrest in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.
"It is intolerable that human trafficking -- modern-day slavery -- could occur in our own backyard," Portman said in a written statement. "What makes the Marion cases even more alarming is that a U.S. government agency was responsible for delivering some of the victims into the hands of their abusers."
The report concluded that administration "policies and procedures were inadequate to protect the children in the agency's care."
HHS spokesman Mark Weber said in a statement that the agency would "review the committee's findings carefully and continue to work to ensure the best care for the children we serve."
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Keeping his big money donors in Hollywood supplied.
The GOP was complicit with every rape, every treason,
every imported disease, and every bloated budget.
The GOP kept themselves EXEMPT under ObamaCARE
when they were not passing ObamaTRADE.
Keeping his big money donors in Hollywood supplied.
Reminds ALL of us of this:
ACORN Prostitution Investigation - James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles - Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UOL9Jh61S8
When a party refuses any moral standards and abandons God why is this surprising? This is why the founders found Christianity so important to our freedoms.
Sgt. First Class Charles Martland has appealed the Army's decision to kick him out of service.
Martland, a "first-rate warrior," is being kicked out of the Army for beating an alleged child rapist in Afghanistan.
That wasn’t a mistake.
Gotta keep the traffic movin’ through.
Slavery is what the Democrat party was founded on.
I’m guessing this isn’t much of a concern to democrats as long as the kids can be trained to vote for them.
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