US denies ‘lost’ 85,000 migrant children
- April 18, 2023
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The US government on Tuesday denied it “lost” 85,000 unaccompanied minor migrants who arrived at the border from Mexico, although it did not provide data on how many
The US government on Tuesday denied it “lost” 85,000 unaccompanied minor migrants who arrived at the border from Mexico, although it did not provide data on how many it traced after being handed over to a relative or legal guardian.
“I want to clarify: we have not lost anyone,” said the director Refugee Settlement Office (ORR), Robin Dunn Marcos, on the US House of Representatives Oversight and Accountability Committee.
Dunn was questioned after an investigation by the newspaper. New York Times March last year, according to which in 2022 the number unaccompanied minor migrants migrants to the United States reached 130,000, three times more than five years earlier.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is an agency tasked with making sure that your caregivers, the people who take care of you, support you and protect you from trade or exploitation.
But, according to the American newspaper, although HHS checks the status of all minors with a call a month after they found a new home, throughout 2021 and 2022, the agency was unable to contact more than 85,000 children.
“The powers of the ORR end when they are transferred to the guardian. However, his worries do not end there. There are a number of measures being taken that we’re trying to keep in touch with,” Dunn said, without elaborating.
In his affidavit released before his appearance, he noted that more than 85% of the 127,447 unaccompanied minors went to “sponsors” such as USA names the people who take care of these minors, in fiscal year 2022 they were living with a close relative, of whom more than a third ended up with a parent or legal guardian.
Less than 15% of children who left ORR this year went to their parents’ home. habitual distant or from a person with whom they were not related by family ties.
He added that in the first half of fiscal year 2023, ORR found shelter for 58,735 minors, and the average lifespan of a child is or Teenager stays at its facilities for no more than a month.
“We know that the best place for a child is family and society. We make sure that both children and sponsors aware of the existence of our national call center, a line available 24 hours a day that can offer various resources,” added the director of ORR.
Republican MP Glenn Grotman, chairman of that committee, accused Joe Biden administration pursuing an “open borders” policy that “caused a humanitarian crisis fueling child traffickers”.
He stressed that many of these minors had to pay travel expenses or go into cartel debt to get to the United States, while many others were forced to drop out of school and go to work to pay off the debt.
New York Times stated that while the federal executive contracts with child protection agencies to oversee the situation of some minors are at high riskSocial workers at these agencies claim that HHS often ignores “clear” signs of worker exploitation.
“ORR does not track or trace the whereabouts of minors after they leave our custody. However, we are determined to continue providing post-op support,” Dunn said simply.
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Source: Aristegui Noticias
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