The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) often leads in exposing issues like this one. In March 2024, the CIS’s Andrew Arthur used the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to obtain a 113-page, $404-million contract between the federal government “and a private entity to transport unaccompanied alien children (UACs) from shelters run by the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR).”
Later in 2008, the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act, added to DHS mandates the transportation of UACs "From non-contiguous countries to ORR within 72 hours, nearly all for placement with sponsors in the United States," according to Arthur.
As a result, the "Number and percentage of UACs apprehended at the border from non-contiguous countries has skyrocketed ever since." Reporting in June 2023 from the Congressional Research Service shows massive increases in UACs at the southwest border since FY2009.
UAC apprehensions skyrocketed when Biden took office in 2021.
UACs "Consistently exceeded 8,500 per month, higher than any period since CBP began publishing UC [UAC] statistics," according to the report.
A 2016 Senate subcommittee report exposes ORR's failure to protect UACs "from trafficking and other abuses.
" The subcommittee reviewed case files and found, HHS does not adequately vet sponsors to ensure that they are willing and able to provide proper care and support to any child-much less children as vulnerable as UACs.
My best guess is that the sponsors for UACs are no better vetted than are the ones for the CHNV program.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/11/what_happens_to_unaccompanied_alien_children.html
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