Reports Suggest HHS Is Cutting Corners in Vetting Sponsors of Migrant Children
The border issue no one’s talking about — yet.
By Andrew R. Arthur on May 6, 2021
In February and March, Border Patrol apprehended 27,934 unaccompanied alien children (UACs) at the Southwest border. The care of those children in federal custody has framed public opinion of the Biden administration’s handling of the border thus far, as I noted in a previous post. Reports suggesting that the government is cutting corners in its vetting of potential sponsors for those children and their household members is the border issue no one’s talking about — yet.
Here’s a truncated version of the UAC apprehension and release process: Migrant children who are “encountered” at the border or the ports by CBP (usually Border Patrol agents) without an adult are first held in Border Patrol stations and CBP processing centers.
Under a problematic 2008 law, rather than being returned home if they haven’t been trafficked or don’t have asylum claims, most of those children are transferred to shelters run or contracted for by the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), within 72 hours of apprehension.
https://cis.org/Arthur/Reports-Suggest-HHS-Cutting-Corners-Vetting-Sponsors-Migrant-Children
