I have written extensively on the Biden-Harris open borders crisis. The flood of illegal aliens, including countless unaccompanied minors often victimized by the carelessness of this administration. The agreements between NGOs and our government to transport them are but one example of the way these innocents may be placed in harm’s way.

As CIS explains, the federal government farms out the transportation of young children from the border using NGOs and private contractors. The report indicates some effort to properly vet the escorts who transport the children. However, it seems that there is much less rigorous vetting of the sponsors who receive them.

According to Arthur, the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (HSA) changed the way minors were handled at the border by “abolish[ing] the former INS and dispers[ing] its enforcement and adjudication responsibilities across various agencies.” Arthur also states that, with “no debate,” Democrats gave ORR, with “no experience in sheltering children,” the responsibility for housing minors.

Later in 2008, the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA), added to DHS mandates the transportation of UACs “from non-contiguous countries to ORR within 72 hours, nearly all for placement with sponsors in the United States,” according to Arthur. As a result, the “number and percentage of UACs apprehended at the border from non-contiguous countries has skyrocketed ever since.”

Reporting in June 2023 from the Congressional Research Service shows massive increases in UACs at the southwest border since FY2009. UAC apprehensions skyrocketed when Biden took office in 2021. UACs “consistently exceeded 8,500 per month, higher than any period since CBP began publishing UC [UAC] statistics,” according to the report.

It is all too common for parents or guardians in the U.S. and abroad to pay smugglers to bring their children to the U.S. In many cases, these sponsors are “unlawful permanent residents” in the U.S. They are here illegally, sheltering UACs while in hiding — not exactly the best prescription for keeping children safe.

NGOs also play a huge role in sheltering minors and, in some cases, are responsible for abusing them. In July, I wrote a piece for Freedom Forever exposing allegations of ongoing “sexual abuse and harassment of minors” by employees of an NGO, Southwest Key Programs, Inc. The article exposed that “Southwest Key operates 29 shelters that provide temporary housing for UACs in Texas, Arizona, and California, making it the largest housing provider for UACs in the U.S.” The DOJ filed a lawsuit against Southwest Key in July 2024.

Once unaccompanied minors leave those shelters, they may be placed with “unvetted sponsors.” The Trump administration mandated DNA testing of those accompanying minors and sponsors to “prove they were a family unit.” Biden did away with the practice in 2023.

Then, in August, I wrote another article on the real-world consequences of Biden’s border policies, including the brutal murders of American citizens by illegal aliens. Another issue highlighted in the same article centered on how poor the vetting is by our government of U.S.-based sponsors.

Quoting CIS’s research, it seems the Biden administration was “‘cutting corners’ when vetting sponsors.” I reported at the time that there were “up to 140,000” UACs with whom the HHS’s ORR [had] lost contact.” And according to the Judiciary’s Aug. 12, 2024 interim report, an “astonishing 420,000 [UACs] [had been] released to sponsors.”

According to CIS, the Trump administration had a more “robust process” for the vetting of sponsors, but the Biden administration allegedly does not. Part of that is because of the unprecedented numbers of illegals crossing the border. There is simply no way for DHS, ICE, or the Border Patrol to properly vet and process them all. CIS writes,

The Biden administration is under pressure to speed those children out of HHS custody, but doing so risks cutting corners when it comes to its vetting of sponsors and their household members.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/11/what_happens_to_unaccompanied_alien_children.html

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part 2

Unfortunately, ORR has a history of failure to properly protect children and vet sponsors. A 2016 Senate subcommittee report exposes ORR’s failure to protect UACs “from trafficking and other abuses.” The Senate investigation found “systemic deficiencies in HHS’s UAC placement process.” The subcommittee reviewed case files and found,

HHS does not adequately vet sponsors to ensure that they are willing and able to provide proper care and support to any child—much less children as vulnerable as UACs. Nor does HHS ensure that UACs receive needed services after placement. In fact, HHS claims it is not responsible for a UAC at all once it releases such a child from federal custody to a sponsor. Rather, HHS believes that after release of a UAC’s care is in the purview of local authorities. By the time local authorities become involved, however, it can be too late.

Finally, in an article I wrote in September, I discussed a report obtained in August by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) that exposed “massive fraud in the application process” used by sponsors of aliens seeking parole under the Cuban-Haitian-Nicaragua-Venezuela (CHNV) program. The document exposed thousands of fraudulently completed applications. The fraudulent information included but was not limited to

the use of fake Social Security numbers,

fake addresses,

multiple sponsors applying from a single property,

identical responses used “by over 10,000 applicants,”

multiple uses of one sponsor’s phone number,

emails being used repeatedly, and

suspicious data changes.

Those transporting UACs may well be the last to see these children safe and alive. My best guess is that the sponsors for UACs are no better vetted than are the ones for the CHNV program.

Rippee was right to come forward. It is scary to think that NGOs are allowed to transport and hand off children, in some cases, to poorly vetted sponsors. Children should enter and settle in the U.S. with their families, not with faceless NGOs. As it stands now, many children are powerless to challenge the process and arguably in harm’s way.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/11/what_happens_to_unaccompanied_alien_children.html

Early vote data in Nevada suggests the state is slipping away from Democrats and could likely be won by President Donald J. Trump on November 5. The state’s top elections and political analyst Jon Ralston—himself a partisan Democrat—is warning that in prior presidential years, the question has always been whether Republicans can overcome the Democratic Party’s early vote firewall. However, he notes that this year, the question has been reversed.

“This year is different in many ways, but most obviously in that for the first time in The Reid Machine Era (2008 and forward), the Republicans are the ones banking votes in a presidential year, establishing a firewall to try to fend off a Democratic comeback and put themselves in the best position since [George W. Bush] won the state in 2004,” Ralston writes, adding: “So the analysis is the opposite of what it usually is: Can the Dems overcome the deficit and what would that look like in the models?”

The Nevada elections guru contends that while Democrats did see some positive news regarding vote totals in Clark County earlier this week, and they do typically surge votes in the final two days of early voting, it may be too little, too late.

“My gut and the data/history tell me it could be close,” Ralston says, adding: “But I tend to agree with GOP operative Jeremy Hughes, who posits that if the final GOP ballot lead gets much over 25,000, big trouble for Dems in trying to turn around this battleship.”

According to Nevada state election data, the Republican Party currently holds an eight percent statewide turnout edge, with a nearly ten percent edge in crucial Clark County. The Democrat firewall in the county is just at 8,600 in Clark.

https://thenationalpulse.com/2024/11/01/nevada-election-guru-has-a-warning-for-democrats/

>>21881605

these types of stories focused on the number of registered republicans vs the number of registered democrats voting early does not take into account the large number of registered democrats, like me, who are crossing party lines to vote for Trump

reminds me of the reagan democrats in the 1980 Presidential election

>>21881644

there are a very large number of them, much greater than registered republicans crossing lines to vote for knee pads

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), a member of the progressive faction in the House referred to as the “Squad,” refused to back Vice President Kamala Harris during a Michigan United Auto Workers rally just days ahead of the election.

With union workers forming a critical component of the Democratic base, Tlaib joined Reps. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) in rallying supporters in Detroit on Friday evening in a bid to shore up blue party support in the battleground state.

Yet while Jayapal and Ocasio-Cortez urged workers to vote for Harris, Tlaib never mentioned her name. Tlaib has been a vocal critic of the Biden-Harris administration’s support of Israel and its war with Hamas in Gaza. Tlaib’s sister, Layla Elabed, is the co-chair of Michigan’s pro-Palestinian “Uncommitted” movement, which in February staged a massive protest vote against President Joe Biden during the state’s Democratic primary. The group has declined to back Harris ahead of the election.

Following her sister’s move to spurn directly endorsing the vice president, Tlaib instead highlighted the importance of reelecting Democratic candidates down the ballot in the state. The Michigan Democrat particularly threw her weight behind Kimberly Thomas and Kyra Harris Bolden, both candidates for the state’s Supreme Court.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/congressional/3213779/tlaib-spurns-harris-endorsement-at-detroit-uaw-rally/

>>21881696

all the diddy and epstein pedophiles trying to escape justice

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By John Solomon

Published: November 1, 2024 11:00pm

House Speaker Mike Johnson says Republicans have an ambitious plan to reshape and shrink federal government if they win the election. That vision includes a plan to deport tens of thousands of federal bureaucrats from Washington and relocate them to middle America.

In a wide-ranging interview this week with Just the News, Johnson said he and other GOP leaders wants to move federal agency offices, personnel and assets from the nation’s capital to bring them closer to the people they serve and farther from the monied special interests that often hijack policy and spending.

“There's a lot of talk about uprooting, you know, these entrenched bureaucracies and putting them out elsewhere around the country,” Johnson told the John Solomon Reports podcast.

He explained such a re-invention of the monstrous federal bureaucracy with more than 2 million federal workers and contractors would integrate with former President Donald Trump’s plan to name billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk to lead a government efficiency office and also tie to fiscal conservatives' vision to eliminate federal bureaucracies and send monies to the states in the form of block grants.

The Louisiana Republican said the deportation of Washington bureaucrats would also create a natural shrinkage in the size and cost of government,

“That accomplishes a lot of important goals but the first would be that you don't have all these career civil service law protected bureaucrats,” he said. “Some of them have been camped out of these agencies for decades. They're nameless, faceless. We don't know who to hold accountable," he said.

https://justthenews.com/government/congress/sathouse-speaker-lays-out-massive-deportation-plan-moving-bureaucrats-dc

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>>21881737

it because they take everything out of context, then try to virtue signal while clutching their pearls

>>21881801

yes, i've enjoyed it, as well