A Health and Human Services (HHS) whistleblower testified to a House Judiciary Subcommittee on Thursday the U.S. government has become the “middleman” in trafficking unaccompanied minors who have illegally crossed the U.S.-Mexico during the crisis under the Biden administration.
Tara Lee Rodas used to work at an emergency intake site in California to help the HHS Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), where she discovered that due to the increased volume of unaccompanied minors coming to the border, sponsors were not being properly vetted.
“Today, children will work overnight shifts at slaughter houses, factories, restaurants to pay their debts to smugglers and traffickers. Today, children will be sold for sex. Today, children will call a hotline to report they are being abused, neglected, and trafficked. For nearly a decade, unaccompanied children have been suffering in the shadows,” she said. Read more…
