This week's Golden Horseshoe is awarded to the Department of Health and Human Services for diverting hundreds of millions of dollars in COVID relief funds to care for unaccompanied alien children crossing the southern border.
HHS outlayed $129.2 million in COVID-19 relief funds, for example, under a $635.6 million contract with San Antonio-based Family Endeavors, Inc. to care for unaccompanied children.
"The purpose of this order is to award emergency intake site and wrap around care services in support of the unaccompanied children's program" at a facility in Pecos, Texas, according to the contract description.
HHS also obligated $57.8 million in COVID relief funds under a $423.2 million cooperative agreement with Austin-based Southwest Key Programs, Inc. to provide shelter for unaccompanied children.
Just the News also found that $40 million in COVID funds were used to transport the UACs as part of a $103.3 million contract awarded to Ashburn, Va.-based MVM to "Coordinate and make travel arrangements for unaccompanied children while in the custody of HHS." That contract can potentially reach $198.3 million.
It appears the Biden administration does not expect the border crisis or the costs of caring for UACs to abate soon, as another $22.7 million in COVID funds is obligated under a $44.9 million contract running through March 2025 to provide shelter and "Child welfare-related services" to UACs in the Office of Refugee Resettlement's custody.
A spokesman for HHS provided this comment: "HHS has a legal obligation to care for all children referred to us by the Department of Homeland Security. It should come as no surprise that the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted sites housing Unaccompanied Children across the country. Ensuring the health and safety of children in our care has become more expensive because of the need for unprecedented pandemic-related precautions like testing, quarantining, and social distancing. We're committed to ensuring HHS has the funds it needs now to safely and humanely care for children and will continue to work with Congress to invest in long-needed programmatic reforms to avoid relying on transferring funds when public health needs emerge."
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Sunday, March 27, 2022
Hundreds of millions in COVID-19 relief dollars diverted to mitigate Biden border crisis
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