Chuck Grassley: “I am here to inform my colleagues what is wrong with our immigration enforcement involving children. In April, the Biden…”

“I am here to inform my colleagues what is wrong with our immigration enforcement involving children. In April, the Biden administration finalized a rule governing its Unaccompanied Minors Program. They did this over the objections of this Senator and 38 others when we informed the administration in a letter. And we didn't object lightly. For nearly a decade, my oversight has shown that the Office of Refugee Resettlement--that is ORR for short--has failed to protect unaccompanied minors. Biden's new rule cements ORR's dangerous policies. Here is just one example of ORR's many failures. This is taken straight from a Justice Department court filing. A sexual predator smuggled a 10-year-old girl. I will call her Mary. That is not her real name. Mary was from Guatemala, smuggled to the United States on false promises of an education. When she reached the border, ORR officials promised Mary they would find a safe sponsor for her. Then they simply trusted everything to Mary's predator and what that predator said. Mary's predator lied about being her father. He gave ORR phony documents and phony forms approving Mary's release to his sister, who he claimed was Mary's aunt. Under Biden's rule, ORR doesn't have to verify a sponsor's proof of identity or even guardianship. It doesn't even fully background-check the sponsor.…”