HHS employees identified 65,000 unanswered reports requesting help or raising warnings for children in March 2025. The agency implemented screening changes in February 2025 after determining that more stringent identity checks could have prevented fraud. Separately, Tom Homan reported that the government has located roughly 157,000 of the 300,000 unaccompanied minors who went missing under the previous administration.
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HHS Denied Fewer Than 1% of Migrant Child Sponsorships in 2024
US Politics19 days ago
An internal HHS memo describes the Biden administration's system for processing unaccompanied migrant children as an "assembly line" that released kids to unvetted sponsors. The Office of Refugee Resettlement denied fewer than 1% of sponsorship applications for minors in fiscal year 2024, often handing children over to adults whose identities or family ties were not verified. These gaps in screening exposed children to exploitation, abuse, rape and death. Internal fraud data showed intentional document manipulation in 85% of cases in a targeted review and 77% of reported "Child Level Events," including falsified photographs and addresses.
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