Feds Spent Hundreds of Millions on Disastrous UAC Resettlement Scheme
Contract for ‘model’ shelter, obtained through FOIA, suggests why problems persist
By Jessica M. Vaughan on October 22, 2024
The Center has obtained the contract awarded in April 2021 to Cherokee Nation Management and Consulting, LLC (CNMC), of Catoosa, Oklahoma, by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, to stand up, manage, and then demobilize a facility near Los Angeles to process and house 2,500 unaccompanied alien children (UACs) who were apprehended crossing the border illegally and who by law must be placed with parents or sponsors in the United States. We obtained the contract through the Freedom of Information Act process.
The document provides insight into why the problem of unaccompanied minors persists despite repeated, scandalous reports of lost, abused, and exploited children in this system – because there are enormous sums of taxpayer money flowing freely to the organizations that sign up to participate in administering the Biden-Harris mass migration programs.
The total dollar value of the contract was $706,894,848.17 for work spanning eight months (or about $3 million per day). Cherokee was to provide “direct care and supervision, intake processing, clothing, hygiene kits, interior security, case management, and medical services at the Pomona Intake Site.” Cherokee was to hire youth care workers, supervisors, and managers, and ensure that medical care personnel were available to meet the health care needs of the children, to include vaccinations and pregnancy tests.
https://cis.org/Vaughan/Feds-Spent-Hundreds-Millions-Disastrous-UAC-Resettlement-Scheme
