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Obama administration placed children with human traffickers, report says (from Jan, 2016)
WaPost ^ | January 28, 2016 | Abbie VanSickle

Posted on 06/16/2018 11:25:27 AM PDT by God luvs America

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.

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TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: immigration
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To: God luvs America

Right there is the reason Bathhouse Barry encouraged unaccompanied minors.


21 posted on 06/16/2018 3:47:50 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: God luvs America

https://www.americandailynews.org/2018/06/15/msnbc-goes-detention-center-looking-migrant-kids-cages-look-find-instead/


22 posted on 06/16/2018 3:49:36 PM PDT by Brown Deer (America First!)
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To: itsahoot

https://www.americandailynews.org/2018/06/15/msnbc-goes-detention-center-looking-migrant-kids-cages-look-find-instead/


23 posted on 06/16/2018 3:50:11 PM PDT by Brown Deer (America First!)
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To: God luvs America
leaving them vulnerable to traffickers and to abuses at the hands of government-approved caretakers,

Like sending them to Comet Pizza?

24 posted on 06/16/2018 4:00:24 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: God luvs America

Bmk


25 posted on 06/16/2018 4:08:15 PM PDT by Popman (Wisdom is not what you know about the world but how well you know God.)
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To: LucyT; LS

How do we get this to the Trump team?
The Dems are going off the wall with this.


26 posted on 06/16/2018 6:18:16 PM PDT by sweetiepiezer (Winning is not getting old.)
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