HHS Awards $500 Mil to Provide Illegal Alien Minors with “High-Quality” Residential Services
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Illegal immigration may be at an all-time low, but American taxpayers are still getting stuck with the exorbitant cost of caring for the hundreds of thousands of alien minors that entered the country under the Biden administration. The government calls them Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC), though the overwhelming majority are not really children but rather young adults in their teens and some have criminal histories. Under U.S. law the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), which is a branch of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), is responsible for caring for UAC, which are overwhelmingly males over the age of 14, according to government figures. They come from Guatemala (32%), Honduras (20%), Mexico (20%), El Salvador (8%), and “other” (19%). More than half a million entered the country during the Biden administration and Uncle Sam has spent a fortune to provide them with housing, food, an education, medical care, and recreational activities before and after they are released to sponsors throughout the nation.
The expenses will evidently continue for years to come. This month, HHS announced that it is awarding up to $500 million in grants to provide “high-quality” residential services for UAC throughout the United States. The cash will go to group homes that specialize in caring for specific populations such as teen mothers, shelters that provide a child-friendly setting for kids of all ages and transitional foster care for those under the age of 13, including sibling groups, pregnant or parenting teens and children with specific individualized needs. The UAC will receive educational and clinical services as well as medical care, recreation, and individual counseling. Grant recipients must provide private spaces for meetings with attorneys and a separate bedroom for isolation or quarantine for those infected with a communicable disease. “Ideally, there should be at least one isolation-capable bedroom, for every 25 children, equipped with a door that closes while allowing line-of-sight through a small window,” according to the recently published grant announcement, which describes the “distinct illnesses” of this population to include varicella and influenza.
https://www.judicialwatch.org/500-mil-to-illegal-alien-minors/
