The findings from a senior Senate Republican’s year-and-a-half investigation into the Biden-Harris administration’s response to an influx of unaccompanied immigrant children at the southern border suggest a multitude of “failures” by the federal government.
Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), the top Republican and soon-to-be chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, released the results of an 18-month search for answers about how the administration cared for minors in government custody after they came over the southern border. The report also examines a sloppy process for finding, matching, and releasing children to live with adults, sometimes strangers.
“Joe Biden and Kamala Harris had the power to prevent the exploitation of children by securing the southern border,” Cassidy said in a statement. “Unfortunately, Democrats treated the border crisis as a messaging issue for their presidential campaign rather than address the humanitarian catastrophe that has resulted from failed Biden-Harris policies.”
The roughly 160-page report was published Tuesday morning. It alleges “top administration officials knew about the dramatic increase in illegal child labor, but took no meaningful steps to prevent its occurrence” and “prioritized speed over safety when releasing [unaccompanied children] to adult sponsors for political gain due to their failed immigration policies and the crisis at the southern border.”
Specifically, Cassidy documented four failures on the part of the Biden-Harris administration. The administration first took actions that resulted in less due diligence in the vetting of adult sponsors for children, which put children at risk. Second, the government increasingly relied on nongovernment entities to vet those sponsors and manage children in custody.
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