Finally, the government has taken steps to stop releasing unaccompanied minors to criminals and traffickers washex.am/2PAEIHS
“The Obama administration released thousands of unaccompanied alien children to criminal sponsors. I know because I was the Homeland Security whistleblower who came forward in late 2015 to the U.S. Office of Special Counsel and to Chuck Grassley about the releases.
“In summer 2015, I was a member of Obama’s Security Council’s Human Smuggling Cell, run by the Depr of Homeland Security. On Aug. 4, 2015, I was sent a spreadsheet from senior ICE managers. The spreadsheet provided data, including criminal history checks of UAC sponsors.
“There were 29,000 sponsors on the massive spreadsheet; 3,669 of the sponsors were convicted of crimes. The crimes ranged, among other things; from re-entry after deportation (a felony offense) to assault to actual sex crimes.”
“After an unaccompanied child proceeded through the multiple bureaucratic steps, he would eventually be released to an unvetted sponsor. Vetting sponsors seemed like common sense even then, but it simply was not happening.”
“HHS is not a law enforcement agency, but it would have been responsible for vetting multiple thousands of sponsors. There were many thousands of children in the immigration pipeline needing sponsors at any one time, meaning thousands of sponsors would have had to be vetted.”
“That's a monumental task for any agency, and especially for a non-law enforcement agency.
This brings us to 2018. The government faced harsh criticism for detaining children and requiring sponsors to be vetted.”
This brings us to 2018. The government faced harsh criticism for detaining children and requiring sponsors to be vetted.”
“Up until 2018, 3 years after I blew the whistle, the government did not even require fingerprints of all sponsors, to determine if we were handing children over to criminals. DNA testing, to determine if sponsors were actually family as claimed, was unheard of at the time.”
“Yet that's the only real way to determine the sponsor’s familial relation to the child.
In July 2018, the Department of Health and Human Services determined that at least five adults attempting to take minors were not familial relations after DNA testing”
In July 2018, the Department of Health and Human Services determined that at least five adults attempting to take minors were not familial relations after DNA testing”
“I blew the whistle and jeopardized my Homeland Security career to expose what I believed was a serious safety issue for the young children. Now, three years later, the appropriate vetting is finally starting to take place.”
