Far-Left Dem Falsely Claims No Unaccompanied Migrant...
Nov 22, 2024 14:15:28 GMT -5
Post by schwartzie on Nov 22, 2024 14:15:28 GMT -5
Far-Left Democrat Falsely Claims No Unaccompanied Migrant Children Have Gone Missing
Nick R. Hamilton
November 22, 2024 - 10:47 am
A far-left progressive Democrat Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) has been caught blatantly lying about the status of thousands of migrant children who have gone missing.
A damning Office of Inspector General report in August found that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was unable to find 32,000 migrant children.
The children were released into the care of the Biden-Harris administration’s Health and Human Services (HHS).
HHS is responsible for supervising unaccompanied migrant children.
“[ICE] could not monitor the location and status of all unaccompanied migrant children (UCs) or initiate removal proceedings as needed,” the OIG report stated.
“During our ongoing audit to assess ICE’s ability to monitor the location and status of UCs who were released or transferred from the custody of [DHS] and [HHS], we learned ICE transferred more than 448,000 UCs to HHS from fiscal years 2019 to 2023.”
“However, ICE was not able to account for the location of all UCs who were released by HHS and did not appear as scheduled in immigration court,” the report added.
“ICE reported more than 32,000 UCs failed to appear for their immigration court hearings from FYs 2019 to 2023.”
While the children went missing between 2019 and 2023 – a period including both the Trump and Biden administrations – the permissive border policies of the Biden-Harris presidency have exacerbated the issue by enabling human traffickers to exploit children.
During a hearing Wednesday, Rep. Jayapal, who is aligned with the “Squad” of radical Democrats, dismissed the concern over missing children as a bogus controversy based on right-wing “talking points.”
Jayapal bizarrely claimed that “these children are not lost.”
She asserted the false claim even though the government cannot account for their location.
“HHS’s legal authority ceases once an unaccompanied child is reunited with a sponsor, usually a parent or a close relative,” the congresswoman added.
“While HHS conducts three follow-up calls to ensure that everything is going well between a sponsor and a child, the agency has no ability to force their way into the home.
“If no one answers these three calls, then HHS is no longer in contact with the child.
“Now that does not mean that the child is lost.”
In short, Jayapal is carrying water for human traffickers whether she realizes it or not.
While Jayapal claims that most children are reunited with “usually a parent or a close relative,” many in fact fall victim to human traffickers who take advantage of poor vetting in the system.
Witnesses on human trafficking testified to Congress this week about this grave and often overlooked side of the border crisis.
Human trafficking expert Alicia Hopper said:
“A young girl who arrived at the border in the custody of individuals claiming to be her family was bruised, disoriented, and in pain.
“Medical examinations revealed that she had been raped, yet she was sent back to her abusers because no verification was done to confirm her guardianship.”
President Donald Trump has vowed to crack down on illegal immigration on Day One.
He has specifically pledged to enact the death penalty for human traffickers.
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Nick R. Hamilton
November 22, 2024 - 10:47 am
A far-left progressive Democrat Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) has been caught blatantly lying about the status of thousands of migrant children who have gone missing.
A damning Office of Inspector General report in August found that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was unable to find 32,000 migrant children.
The children were released into the care of the Biden-Harris administration’s Health and Human Services (HHS).
HHS is responsible for supervising unaccompanied migrant children.
“[ICE] could not monitor the location and status of all unaccompanied migrant children (UCs) or initiate removal proceedings as needed,” the OIG report stated.
“During our ongoing audit to assess ICE’s ability to monitor the location and status of UCs who were released or transferred from the custody of [DHS] and [HHS], we learned ICE transferred more than 448,000 UCs to HHS from fiscal years 2019 to 2023.”
“However, ICE was not able to account for the location of all UCs who were released by HHS and did not appear as scheduled in immigration court,” the report added.
“ICE reported more than 32,000 UCs failed to appear for their immigration court hearings from FYs 2019 to 2023.”
While the children went missing between 2019 and 2023 – a period including both the Trump and Biden administrations – the permissive border policies of the Biden-Harris presidency have exacerbated the issue by enabling human traffickers to exploit children.
During a hearing Wednesday, Rep. Jayapal, who is aligned with the “Squad” of radical Democrats, dismissed the concern over missing children as a bogus controversy based on right-wing “talking points.”
Jayapal bizarrely claimed that “these children are not lost.”
She asserted the false claim even though the government cannot account for their location.
“HHS’s legal authority ceases once an unaccompanied child is reunited with a sponsor, usually a parent or a close relative,” the congresswoman added.
“While HHS conducts three follow-up calls to ensure that everything is going well between a sponsor and a child, the agency has no ability to force their way into the home.
“If no one answers these three calls, then HHS is no longer in contact with the child.
“Now that does not mean that the child is lost.”
In short, Jayapal is carrying water for human traffickers whether she realizes it or not.
While Jayapal claims that most children are reunited with “usually a parent or a close relative,” many in fact fall victim to human traffickers who take advantage of poor vetting in the system.
Witnesses on human trafficking testified to Congress this week about this grave and often overlooked side of the border crisis.
Human trafficking expert Alicia Hopper said:
“A young girl who arrived at the border in the custody of individuals claiming to be her family was bruised, disoriented, and in pain.
“Medical examinations revealed that she had been raped, yet she was sent back to her abusers because no verification was done to confirm her guardianship.”
President Donald Trump has vowed to crack down on illegal immigration on Day One.
He has specifically pledged to enact the death penalty for human traffickers.
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