Sen. Josh Hawley is calling for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to begin a “full-scale” investigation into 85,000 missing migrant children who have dissapeared under Joe Biden’s watch.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has lost all contact with the children since they were released into the United States.
HHS officials have lost contact with some 85,000 accompanied Alien Children (UACs) since Biden took office.
According to Josh Hawley and other reports, Biden Biden officials ignored warnings that many these missing children (UACs) end up in child sex trafficking rings,
Hawley wrote a letter to the FBI demanding Director Christopher Wray launch an investigation into missing UACs and the adult sponsors who are “holding them in modern-day slavery.”
“Some 345,000 children have come across the border unaccompanied since early 2021,” Hawley writes:
“We now know tens of thousands of these children have been caught up in massive child smuggling and child labor operations. I am sure you have seen recent reports in the New York Times that HHS has lost touch with as many as 85,000 migrant children. Thousands of these children are now the prey of child labor criminals. [Emphasis added]
The Biden administration is morally responsible for their fate. The President lifted Title 42 restrictions on unaccompanied children in early 2021. Reporting reveals that HHS loosened vetting processes for sponsors and retaliated against whistleblowers who raised these concerns. As a result, thousands of children have been handed over to modern-day slave traders. They are forced into factory work under punishing conditions.
They are forced to make auto parts, process meat in slaughterhouses, and reroof houses. They are denied food, and education and sometimes fear for their lives. They suffer sexual violence. In a country that claims to value the rule of law and the protection of children, this is unconscionable.” [Emphasis added]
Hawley wrote in response to the scandal:
“The FBI must mount a full-scale effort to locate these missing children and to bring to justice the criminals who are holding them in modern-day slavery.”
“The FBI must also investigate HHS and the Department of Homeland Security for their role in facilitating the exploitation of these children, in violation of the law,” he continued.
During a House Homeland Security subcommittee hearing hosted by Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA) earlier this week, an HHS whistleblower revealed how the Biden administration is acting as a “middleman” for a “multi-billion-dollar child trafficking operation.”
According to the whistleblower, the process starts at the border, when the children are taken into DHS custody before being sent to HHS custody.
According to experts, the children are then with adult sponsors, who are rarely unvetted.
These ‘adult sponsors’ are sometimes given 0, 20, 30, and 40 children (UACs) with no oversight from the HHS, the whistleblower said.
The whistleblower added that many of these ‘adult sponsors’ are from criminal organizations, like child sex trafficking rings.
“I discovered that children are being trafficked through a sophisticated network that begins with being recruited in their home country, smuggled to the U.S. border, and ends when [the Office of Refugee Resettlement] delivers a child to sponsors — some sponsors are criminals and traffickers and members of Transnational Criminal Organizations,” the whistleblower said.
Since Biden took office, the inflow of UACs to the U.S. has tippled, coinciding with child trafficking, abuse, and neglect.
In Joe Biden’s first two years, almost 300,000 UACs were given to adult sponsors.
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