Biden Admin Placed Unaccompanied Immigrant Children in Unsafe Homes

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Biden Administration Placed Unaccompanied Immigrant Children in Unsafe Homes

The Daily Caller highlighted a recent report from the Wall Street Journal that showed that the Biden administration repeatedly placed unaccompanied immigrant children with guardians previously deemed unsuitable by case workers to avoid criticism of “kids in cages.” Don’t they know that only gets media attention when directed at Republicans?

In 2021, safety concerns were dismissed, and some children were sent to homes associated with criminal behavior or forced labor. Internal documents revealed over 100 children were placed with previously denied guardians, often without proper explanations.

More from The Daily Caller:

“Although well-intentioned, these sites were unregulated and unsafe,” Neha Desai, the senior director of immigration at the National Center for Youth Law, an organization that tracks the care of migrant children in government custody, stated to the WSJ. “There was enormous pressure placed on the sites to rapidly release children from custody.”

In one instance, caseworkers discovered that several different purported guardians residing in different addresses in one U.S. city all had ties to the same person, an indication that the sponsor was scooping minors up for work, according to the WSJ. In another documented case, a Health and Human Services (HHS) case coordinator’s denial was overridden, allowing a 16-year-old Guatemalan boy to live with a sponsor in South Texas, despite another man at that same address being charged with a felony several months earlier for reportedly hitting his girlfriend.

An internal investigation found that 16% of case files lacked documentation for safety checks. The border crisis in 2021 saw nearly 148,000 unaccompanied minors, pressuring officials to quickly release children from overcrowded facilities, often resulting in unsafe placements.

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