HHS Head Becomes Target of Washington ‘Blame Game’ on Migrant Children

[rangerrebew]

HHS Head Becomes Target of Washington ‘Blame Game’ on Migrant Children

Becerra is the wrong man, and HHS the wrong agency, to deal with the border crisis
By Andrew R. Arthur on April 19, 2021

A recent Politico article was captioned “Border fiasco spurs a blame game inside Biden world”. It focused on complaints about Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra’s handling of the unprecedented number of unaccompanied alien children (UACs) recently apprehended at the Southwest border. Becerra is only partially to blame: He’s the wrong man, and HHS is the wrong agency, to deal with the migrant crisis.

By way of background, when DHS was created in the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (HSA), that bill was amended by House Democrats to give the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) in HHS jurisdiction over the unaccompanied children that DHS apprehended.

That role was expanded in the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 (TVPRA). As I explained in my last post, the TVPRA divided UACs based on nationality, with Mexican and Canadian children on the one hand, and children of all other nationalities on the other.

DHS can quickly return Mexican and Canadian children home if they have no fear of return and have not been trafficked.

https://cis.org/Arthur/HHS-Head-Becomes-Target-Washington-Blame-Game-Migrant-Children

[PeteS in CA]

The incompetent Becerra is the scapegoat for LIEden's predictable policy failure.

[GtHawk]

The incompetent Becerra is the scapegoat for LIEden's predictable policy failure.

When someone actively seeks a position so far out of their ability as to be laughable they deserve all that they receive in the way of blame when it comes to the disaster on our southern border. Also only a fool would believe they wouldn't be the scapegoat for Captain Dementia's insane policies, come to think of it that describes Becerra to a tee.