Is the federal government handing over migrant children to p*dophiles?
DHHS head Xavier Becerra appears to admit hundreds of thousands of migrant children are unaccounted for
Just how many migrant children disappear after being handed over to US-based “sponsors” who turn out to be criminals?
This is a question that Republican lawmakers recently pressed into outgoing Department of Health and Human Services head Xavier Becerra during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in November.
During his time with the agency chief, Rep. Chip Roy asked Becerra whether he could account for the roughly 400,000 UACs (“unaccompanied alien child”) who are reportedly unaccounted for by the US government.
The minors are usually taken into federal custody and then released to sponsors who the American Thinker noted are very dubiously screened thanks to a recent rule change at the DHS.
Becerra responded with a bit of a “word salad” at first before going on to admit that the federal government simply loses “custody” of the children once they’re passed over to sponsors.
“Congressman, as I explained the process,” Becerra, whose agency oversees the facilitation of migrant children. “We get these kids when they are referred to us by the Department of Homeland Security. We then provide them with care while they are in our custody. We lose custody of those kids once we find a vetted sponsor with whom they can stay.”
These “vetted” sponsors are checked against sex offender registries and public records, but according to the American Spectator’s Olivia Murray, only “some” are subject to FBI background checks.
Murray says that some children have been tracked down and found to be living with abusers and criminals.
Republican Rep. Andy Biggs noted during his time questioning Becerra that “if you don’t do the vetting right, you don’t know if they’re engaged in criminal activity.”
“That’s how you end up with an MS-13 gang member as the sponsor,” he continued.
“That’s how you end up with pedophiles getting 20 children in the same home … The vetting has been crappy. That’s the bottom line.”
This is how our federal government has been treating migrant children? Unbelievable. These children deserve justice for the way they’ve been treated, just as much as the American public deserves a secure border.