IG Report: Migrant children held at Fort Bliss under distressing conditions
(Update)
John Sexton 7:20 PM
September 28, 2022
The underlying story isn’t new. In fact the poor conditions at the Fort Bliss shelter for migrant children were reported last summer ...
The people that were contracted to look after these kids came from ServePro, a company that does clean up and repair in the wake of natural disasters. The workers involved had absolutely no experience working with children. The contractor’s staff told the whistleblowers “that they had received no training prior to beginning work and had little guidance about what their role was,” the whistleblowers said. They also said the contractors “seemed to view their job more as crowd control than youth care,” describing instances in which contractors woke children up at 6 a.m. with a bullhorn.
Last July, two more whistleblowers came forward claiming that the site, which at one time held up to 5,000 migrant children, had seen COVID and lice spread among the kids. ... Yesterday the HHS Inspector General released a report confirming that conditions at Fort Bliss were as bad as reported last year. ...
The full IG report is here. The Biden administration’s handling of this was a disaster and while it has received some media attention last year it never got nearly as much coverage as the “kids in cages” story got back in 2018-2019. I wonder why that is?
Here’s a BBC report on the conditions from last year which also includes allegations of rape and sexual assault. I don’t see anything about that in the IG report except a passing mention that in future case managers should “receive training in ORR policies and procedures, including case management processes;…ORR field guidance; standards to prevent, detect, and respond to sexual abuse and sexual harassment…” ...
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