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Immigration See other Immigration Articles Title: The 12-Month, $404 Million Contract to Transport Migrant Kids that Youre Paying For As part of the Center’s efforts to bring transparency to the U.S. immigration system using the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), Colin Farnsworth — our chief FOIA counsel — requested a contract between the U.S. government and a private entity to transport unaccompanied alien children (UACs) from shelters run by the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) in the Department of Health and Human Services to their sponsors in the United States. We received all 119 pages of it, and the bottom line is that taxpayers forked out $404 million over a 12-month period, in part to complete a criminal conspiracy, under a contract that failed to detail how “care provider escorts” would identify the “sponsors” they were giving the kids to or how they would assess whether those kids would be safe. That’s a big deal, given the likelihood that this was the last contact many of those children would have with the U.S. government. The False Humanity of Federal UAC Law and Policy. Prior to the creation of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the former Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) was responsible for the care of shelter of the illegal alien children it encountered. That rubbed a lot of advocates — most of whom despised the INS — the wrong way, so they sued the agency in federal court throughout the 1980s and 90s (usually unsuccessfully) until eventually the Clinton administration caved and settled with them. That settlement agreement, in Flores v. Reno, subsequently governed the conditions of INS detention and release of alien children. And there the matter rested, until the months following the September 11th attacks, when Congress reorganized the executive branch structure to place most agencies with a nexus to domestic security into one department, DHS. Among other things, the resulting Homeland Security Act of 2002 (HSA) abolished the former INS and dispersed its enforcement and adjudication responsibilities across various federal agencies. In the course of that restructuring, for reasons known only to its Democratic sponsors, an amendment was passed that defined the term “unaccompanied alien child” and gave responsibility for detaining and releasing those UACs to ORR. Poster Comment: Biden has tens of thousands of children working in brothels. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
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