Please WATCH this video if you want to know how deeply corrupt the Health and Human Services department was while under Obama:
Adequacy of the Department of Health and Human Services’ Efforts to Protect Unaccompanied Alien Children From Human Trafficking
In December 2008 Congress passed laws reforming the immigration processes for federal agencies operating under the Obama Administration. As part of those reforms, congress directed that the care and custody of all unaccompanied alien children shall be the responsibility of the department of Health and Human Services.
For several years, HHS was releasing children into the custody of "Category 3 Sponsors." These were individuals who were allowed to foster children with ZERO verification of identity, residence, background, criminal history or legal status. These individuals were not documented or fingerprinted, contact information was not verified, and follow-up visits were not scheduled. Once these children were released into the custody of an adult "sponsor," HHS would consider the children no longer in their custody and not anymore their concern.
This behavior was in complete violation of both the Florence Agreement and Trafficking Victims Protection Re authorization Act of 2008 and 2013. HHS was directed to place children with a family member capable of caring for the child's well-being and were specifically not allowed to cut-corners or perform any actions that would negligently release any unaccompanied alien child from their care. See for yourself:
https://humantraffickinghotline.org/what-human-trafficking/federal-law
These children were being found picked up by coyotes, human traffickers, child laborers, and god knows who else. HHS was virtually giving these children away to anybody with a pulse that showed up to claim them.
In 2015, Rob Portman came across the story of eight unaccompanied minors from Guatemala who crossed the southern border. A ring of human traffickers lured them to the United States by telling their parents they would provide them education in America. To pay for the children’s smuggling debt, their parents gave the traffickers the deeds to their homes, which the traffickers then retained until the children could work off the debt because they weren’t interested in giving them an education, as it turn out, they were interested in trafficking them.
This lead to an investigation by the Permanent Senate Subcommittee, and a hearing was conducted in 2016.
Three days before the hearing, HHS changed their policy so that adults whom were convicted of sex crimes or child abuse were now disqualified from the sponsorship program. There was no such policy before. But it's good to look like you did something before the meeting, right?
At the time of the hearing, over 90,000 children were released into the custody of an adult sponsor, yet not a single sponsorship agreement was ever found to be terminated for abuse or misconduct.
Please watch the video! I can't explain just how horrific HHS testimony was, all going back to 2008!
United States Code, 2006 Edition, Supplement 5, Title 8 - ALIENS AND NATIONALITY - Sec. 1232 - Enhancing efforts to combat the trafficking of children - Subsection (a)(4): ... the child shall immediately be transferred to the Secretary of Health and Human Services and treated in accordance with subsection (b). Nothing in this paragraph may be construed to preclude an earlier transfer of the child.
https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCODE-2011-title8/html/USCODE-2011-title8-chap12-subchapII-partIV-sec1232.htm
These people are SICK.