Feds deflect accountability for immigrant kids after placement with sponsors, fueling bipartisan frustrations: Report
Despite a backlog of unaccompanied alien children who have crossed the southern border without a parent or legal guardian, several federal agencies have failed to address deficiencies that create “significant risk for trafficking and abuse” for immigrant minors who are placed into homes with sponsors, a new bi-partisan Senate investigation concludes.
The Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations released a 52-page report Wednesday, charging that no federal agency will claim legal responsibility for unaccompanied alien children once the Office of Refugee Resettlement places the individual with a sponsor — leaving the children vulnerable to human trafficking and abuse.
