Key Points
- A whistleblower claims that The Department of Health and Human Services “knowingly” is transferring migrant children to criminals, including sex traffickers.
- “We write concerning an alarming report by a federal employee whistleblower that the [HHS] is knowingly transferring unaccompanied migrant children in the custody of criminals, including sex traffickers,” five GOP lawmakers wrote in a joint letter to HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra. The group cited testimony that the government failed to settle minors, who were caught while crossing the U.S. borders, into homes of “safe, non-criminal sponsors.”
- “If these claims are true, this is pure evil being committed by your agency,” they wrote.
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