Political Quotes

“You know what I think is a disgrace? I think it is disgraceful when the person who is in charge of placing those children has lost contact and communication with more than 85,000, according to The New York Times, and that was 7 months ago. The real number now exceeds 100,000. Mr. Chair, that is 100,000 children that this individual has lost contact with--her office and the Department has lost contact with. That is what is disgraceful. If we are talking about policy and that she is merely carrying out the policy of the administration, are you telling me that it is the policy of this administration to lose contact and not adequately vet people? You know, you have some people who received literally a dozen or more individuals--little children--into that home, and that person was not qualified and not adequately vetted. Two-thirds of all UACs that leave HHS's care work illegal, full-time jobs, often in factories and in hazardous conditions. ORR has an agreement that the sponsor is supposed to sign to protect the UAC from being trafficked or exploited, but that doesn't seem to be very effective. Caseworkers within ORR claim that HHS regularly ignored obvious signs of labor exploitation, such as single sponsors sponsoring multiple UAC, hot spots in the country where many UAC sponsors are not the children's parents, UAC with significant debts, and direct reports of trafficking.…”