This is the third drop of info from the human trafficking grand jury in Floria which worked on the issue for years.
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The Process UAC(unaccompanied children--up to age 17) who arrive at a border (as more than 250,000 have since January, 2021) are initially met by a Border Patrol agent and screened to determine their identity, origin, and physical well-being. All of this information is self-reported; some are carrying documents, but most are not, and even those documents are not always authentic.
UAC are not rapid-DNA or biometric tested to see if, in fact, they might be an adult with a criminal history or if they are truly biologically related to either their putative parent or a proposed sponsor. DHS does not cross reference the UC portal—HHS’s case management system and official system of record for unaccompanied alien children (to determine, for example, if the UAC has been here before) Federal law requires that within 72 hours custody of UAC must be turned over to ORR, which then houses the UAC for a period of twenty days or less.
They do so in shelters in 22 states; some are designed for this purpose, some are “Emergency shelters” built or converted for this purpose and staffed on a contract basis, and some are shelters run by organizations we have previously referenced (in Florida, these facilities have historically been required to be licensed as “Child Placement Facilities” by the Florida Department of Children and Families). Some such shelters run three shifts of hundreds of “case managers” each, 24 hours a day ORR(office of refugee settlement) divides the country into three regions and uses “Federal Field Specialists” to oversee and manage the care provider facilities and releases of children to sponsors.
An Intake Team reviews available bed space at ORR care providers or temporary facilities through the UC Portal. According to an employee of one care provider, the Intake Team provides “very minimal demographic information” when attempting to identify initial placement, in one instance only asking the care provider if it had “space for a 12-year-old boy from Guatemala.” The UAC is then shipped off to a facility to await placement pending a decision on their claim to remain in the country.
Questions are asked about the child's journey, family and significant relationships, and a child's medical, legal, and educational background Case managers theoretically determine whether the child requires services such as medical or psychological treatment, and whether they have a sponsor awaiting them in this country.
Case managers are not required to have more than a bachelor's degree, and none we spoke with either had themselves or knew of any others with any law enforcement experience. Indeed, several we met with were hired over the phone, sight unseen, after a brief conversation and at most a cursory background check. (it could be virtually anone doing these key jobs of seeing who is coming into the country) Unless the case manager comes to the job with prior experience, they receive little to no training in such things as interviewing individuals, especially these children, in a trauma-informed manner; examining, evaluating, or recognizing documents as authentic or fake; investigating the safety or legitimacy of addresses to which the UAC might be sent; conducting checks for criminal history; conducting fingerprint checks or interpreting results; recognizing gang affiliation They are actively discouraged from independently investigating any of these things, and in some cases directly ordered not to do so.
Many case managers learn how to do their jobs largely by trial and error or discussions among one another. They ascertain whether ORR’s UAC portal database shows that anyone has applied ‘Fortunate UAC arrive at a smaller-scale facility where their cases receive more thorough assessment with a manager-UAC ratio perhaps as low as 8-1. Others end up in overcrowded, hastily-erected converted shelters with ratios approaching 30-1 6 to sponsor the UAC, and if so where that person might be and whether they claim to be a parent, a relative, or unrelated to the UAC (Categories of sponsors).
Case manager supervisors are sometimes just those who have managed to stay around the longest—some were promoted after as little as a few weeks Often, inconsistencies emerge in the UAC’s story, or in comparing the UAC’s version to that of a potential sponsor. We received testimony that at some facilities, even when case managers discovered and attempted to pursue this, they are chastised by their superiors at ORR and reminded that they are not to investigate suspicions, or question documents or addresses. They are told they are “not experts” and that their job is to approve placement with a sponsor We learned of the incessant pressure on case managers to process UAC speedily with minimal, if any, scrutiny of sponsors or questionable documents, addresses, or stories told to them.
Thirty-day timeframes for processing a UAC are often reduced to twenty, and to as few as fourteen.
see excerpt below, smells like another gummit funded racket spread thru 22 states with what (my guess) is a group of fat cats at the top sucking the bulk of the money out of the operation.
without seeing any names published here, it wouldn’t surprise me to see family & friends of pols/SES organized as regional or local managers of these ORRs making big money as gummit contractors???
bigger money in human trafficking than drugs today? plus it’s green industry with recyclable children
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excerpt:
They do so in shelters in 22 states; some are designed for this purpose, some are “Emergency shelters” built or converted for this purpose and staffed on a contract basis, and some are shelters run by organizations we have previously referenced (in Florida, these facilities have historically been required to be licensed as “Child Placement Facilities” by the Florida Department of Children and Families). Some such shelters run three shifts of hundreds of “case managers” each, 24 hours a day ORR(office of refugee settlement) divides the country into three regions and uses “Federal Field Specialists” to oversee and manage the care provider facilities and releases of children to sponsors.
An Intake Team reviews available bed space at ORR care providers or temporary facilities through the UC Portal. According to an employee of one care provider, the Intake Team provides “very minimal demographic information” when attempting to identify initial placement, in one instance only asking the care provider if it had “space for a 12-year-old boy from Guatemala.” The UAC is then shipped off to a facility to await placement pending a decision on their claim to remain in the country.