A apical Biden management charismatic told lawmakers earlier this period that nan Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) isn’t inquiring astir nan criminal histories of migrant children successful its care, The Post has learned.
Robin Dunn Marcos, a elder HHS charismatic overseeing nan program for solo kid migrants, told nan House Judiciary Committee that moreover though agency officials interaction nan consulate aliases embassy of whichever state unaccompanied alien children (UACs) hail from, they do not petition immoderate criminal records, according to a transcript of her June 8, 2023, testimony.
“Earlier you mentioned that [the Office of Refugee Resettlement] contacts nan UAC consulate and nan UAC’s location state to verify day of birth, commencement certificate of nan UAC, and whether nan UAC is suspected of being an big successful those types of contexts,” a committee unit personnel said earlier asking Marcos: “What other does ORR verify pinch consulates? What different type of information?”
“I judge that it is commencement certificates and personality documents,” she responded.
“So ORR does not petition nan criminal grounds successful nan location state from the consulate?” nan unit personnel pressed.
“We do not,” Marcos said.
In caller years, nan number of children coming crossed nan separator unsocial has skyrocketed. Along pinch that surge has travel enhanced scrutiny connected nan vetting done by HHS erstwhile releasing migrant children to sponsors wrong nan US.
More than 8 cardinal migrants person entered nan US on nan confederate separator since President Biden took agency successful January 2021, according to Customs and Border Protection data.
Of those, much than 400,000 person been released into nan US to unrecorded pinch vetted sponsors, a June 3 statement from ORR shows.
The agency had mislaid way of astatine slightest 85,000 children arsenic of February 2023, nan New York Times reported, astir a 3rd of nan full number of migrant children successful nan country.
As of fiscal twelvemonth 2023, 70% of that cohort were aged 15 aliases older — and astir were boys.
HHS that twelvemonth conducted an audit that recovered it had appropriately followed procedures for sponsor vetting — but transcribed interviews and communications pinch nan Judiciary sheet revealed that it had not taken into relationship nan migrant accused of murdering autistic Maryland 20-year-old Kayla Hamilton.
The fishy successful that case, a 17-year-old autochthonal of El Salvador, was a personnel of nan MS-13 pack who had been allowed into nan US by DHS while a insignificant and released to a sponsor vetted by HHS.
Majority unit for nan Judiciary panel’s Subcommittee connected Immigration Integrity, Security and Enforcement released a 15-page study Monday which blamed HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra for a “toxic situation” that allows gang-affiliated minors to transverse into nan US without being flagged and referred to nan Department of Justice.
“As nan Committee and Subcommittee’s oversight has shown, these policies person incentivized criminals, specified arsenic nan MS-13-affiliated forbidden alien who murdered Kayla Hamilton, to travel to nan southwest border, knowing they very apt will beryllium released into nan interior of nan country,” nan study concludes.
Biden, 81, reportedly “lashed out” astatine Becerra early successful his management complete HHS’ inability to grip a surge of unaccompanied migrant children astatine nan confederate border.
Ex-White House home argumentation advisor Susan Rice besides reportedly called her chap Cabinet charismatic an “idiot” and “b—h a–” for being unable to unafraid further sheltering spaces for migrants.
Last year, nan Times reported that Becerra pushed his unit to merchandise unaccompanied children to sponsors quicker, pinch little accent connected preventing kids from falling into unsafe situations.
“If Henry Ford had seen this successful his plants, he would person ne'er go celebrated and rich. This is not nan measurement you do an assembly line,” nan caput was quoted arsenic saying successful nan summertime of 2022.
Meeting audio obtained by nan Times besides reveals nan HHS caput balking astatine having to take sides his actions successful beforehand of Congress.
“Every clip we person to spell to nan Hill and explicate why we’re spending truthful overmuch money, erstwhile astir group are struggling to walk a small spot of money for their kids connected a regular basis, we effort to explicate really we’re spending much than $1,000 a time for kids who whitethorn not moreover person nan ineligible correct to beryllium here?” he asked astatine 1 point. “Not me.”
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