HHS under GOP fire for putting illegal alien children ‘in danger’

ByAnna Giaritelli

August 13, 2024 8:00 am

EXCLUSIVE — House Republicans are pushing the Biden administration for information on the number of potentially dangerous adults in the United States who applied to take custody of unaccompanied migrant children in government custody after crossing the southern border alone.

Senior Republicans on the House Homeland SecurityCommittee sent the Department of Health and Human Services a letter late Monday that requested data from its Office of Refugee Resettlement, which is responsible for caring for the more than 430,000 children in federal custody at the border and screening the adult sponsors the child is placed to live with, the Washington Examiner has learned.

“The humanitarian crisis caused by the Biden-Harris administration’s open-borders policies have placed hundreds of thousands of innocent children in danger,” House Homeland Security Chairman Mark Green (R-TN) said in a statement.

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