Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene told Fox that she was looking forward to attending the screening, remarking, "America is number 1 in the world in consuming child pornography and child sex trafficking, and the Biden Administration has lost over 85,000 migrant children." The following morning, Republican representatives swung into action during a U.S. House Energy Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing.
Becerra dodged questions, asserting that the representatives' statements amounted to a "Misunderstanding." "You and I don't agree on the policies that brought these children to our border. But I believe that no matter the policies, once they are in our care and we have taken on the responsibility for them, we must care for them properly," Subcommittee Chair Rep. Morgan Griffith told Becerra during his opening remarks.
"It does appear that the children's welfare was not a primary concern." Becerra acknowledged reports indicating that companies are illegally employing and exploiting increasing numbers of children, but he claimed that the HHS has no legal responsibility for unaccompanied minors once it places them in the custody of a vetted sponsor.
Becerra told the subcommittee that fewer than 15 percent of children are placed with sponsors who are not their "Parent, legal guardian, or close family member." The HHS performs checks on the minors, calling their sponsors a month after the children have begun living with their sponsors.
According to data obtained by the New York Times, "[T]he agency could not reach more than 85,000 children.
" These children frequently become "Part of a new economy of exploitation." They frequently end up working on assembly lines or construction sites.
"Children [are] dropping out of school or never signing up as they owe a debt to the smuggler that trafficked them. Children [are] running away from their sponsors, the ones that ORR placed them with because they were being sold for sex," said Committee Chair Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers during the hearing.
https://spectator.org/republicans-grill-hhs-secretary-after-watching-sound-of-freedom/
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