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HHS ‘knowingly’ transferred migrant children to criminals, sex traffickers, GOP senators charge
Republican senators are demanding a congressional hearing after a HHS whistleblower alleged that the agency is placing unaccompanied children into the hands of criminals.
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EXCLUSIVE: Republican senators are accusing the Department of Health and Human Services of "knowingly" transferring unaccompanied migrant children to criminals, based on a new whistleblower claim.
In letters to HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra and Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs (HSGAC) Chairman Gary Peters, D-Mich., first obtained by Fox News Digital, Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., and other GOP senators demand a hearing to investigate the shocking whistleblower claim.
"We write in response to recently reported claims by federal employee whistleblower that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is knowingly transferring unaccompanied migrant children in the custody of criminals, including sex traffickers," the senators wrote.
"This cannot be swept under the rug. Congress must immediately take action to stop the atrocities this whistleblower claims are being committed by the federal government itself," they wrote. "The Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs must call a hearing to further investigate these whistleblower claims."
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Xavier Becerra, secretary of Health and Human Services. (Photographer: Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The senators cited recently released video of a former HHS employee, Tara Lee Rodas, who was detailed to the Emergency Intake Site in Pomona, California. Senators said her testimony described several "disturbing" claims about the agency's Unaccompanied Children Program, including the department's failure to place children into the homes of "safe, non-criminal sponsors."
"[Most people] have no idea that children are going to unrelated people. That children are definitely — we have proof, evidence — that they are being recruited and transported. They are then in debt bondage," Rodas alleged in the video published by Project Veritas.
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"We know that children have been trafficked through the [Unaccompanied Children] program," she said, adding that the government is "paying to put children in the hands of criminals."
