Hillary is out badmouthing Trump for separating children from their parents. I have to assume when Obama did this she was silent (or even applauding?)
From NY Mag
The United States government placed an unknown number of Central American migrant children into the custody of human traffickers after neglecting to run the most basic checks on these so-called “caregivers,” according to a Senate report released on Thursday.
In the fall of 2013, tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors traveled to the U.S. southern border, in flight from poverty and gang violence in Central America. At least six of those children were eventually resettled on an egg farm in Marion, Ohio, where their sponsors forced them to work 12 hours a day under threats of death. Local law enforcement uncovered the operation last year, prompting the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations to open an inquiry into the federal government’s handling of migrants.
“It is intolerable that human trafficking — modern-day slavery — could occur in our own backyard,” Senator Rob Portman, Republican of Ohio and the chairman of the subcommittee, told the New York Times. “But what makes the Marion cases even more alarming is that a U.S. government agency was responsible for delivering some of the victims into the hands of their abusers.”
As detention centers became incapable of housing the massive influx of migrants, the Department of Health and Human Services started placing children into the care of sponsors who would oversee the minors until their bids for refugee status could be reviewed. But in many cases, officials failed to confirm whether the adults volunteering for this task were actually relatives or good Samaritans — and not unscrupulous egg farmers or child molesters. The department performed check-in visits at caretakers’ homes in only 5 percent of cases between 2013 and 2015, according to the report.
The Senate’s investigation built on an Associated Press report that found more than two dozen unaccompanied children were placed in homes where they were sexually abused, starved, or forced into slave labor. HHS claimed that it lacked the funds and authorities that a more rigorous screening process would have required. However, the investigation also found that HHS did not spend all of the money allocated to it for handling the crisis.
The agency placed 90,000 migrant children into sponsor care between 2013 and 2015. Exactly how many of those fell prey to traffickers is unknown, because the agency does not keep track.
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carmencita ago
The question is, Where the heck are those 90K children. They are hiding the numbers on everyday missing children as runaways or that they have returned when in fact, I bet they have not. They are good at Creative Math. Thousands have been lost within the foster care programs as well. What a Nasty Shameful Business HHS is running.
Blacksmith21 ago
Remember some of the early threads on "rendering"? Primarily by acid into black water drains.
carmencita ago
There was an article about how in China they are doing this to children. Disappearing with acid. Despicable Them. There are no words for things like that.
TrendyCantina ago
Evil. There is one word. Jesus is kicking their asses as we speak, I ASSURE YOU of that.
carmencita ago
I know that these words are used over and over and by me as well. It gets to the point where somehow the words do not seem evil enough. I guess it is because we have been at this so long and have read about so much. Evil Incarnate.
TrendyCantina ago
That's true. One wonders why these emails were allowed to leak to the public.I know this isn't a popular opinion, but i have seen evidence that Wikileaks and Assange are controlled opposition. Those emails were leaked for a reason. I wonder if they are simply getting us so used to their evil that finally we won't have any reaction at all. And judging by the response to WalMart/Merkley, I think we have reached that point. That is why i believe humans can't do anything to counteract this, and why God sends Jesus to help us out.
tholinz ago
I fully believe that if Wikileaks was 100% independent from any government influence, Assange would have turned up dead a long time ago. The scary thing is, that dude doesn't even need to be in on it to be used as controlled opposition. In fact, it would behoove the handling organization to let him keep up the fiction in his own mind that's he's the hero of his story, and feed him whatever info they want to see him publish.
TrendyCantina ago
Exactly. He was raised in a cult, he was fodder to be used in this way.
We are to believe he is enemy number one of the U.S., that, like Snowden, the CIA really really wants him but they just can't get to him? Lol. Snowden was interviewed by NBC news in person, in Russia, but the CIA couldn't get him. Ok.
What I've noticed is that whenever questions arise about Assange, like when Steve Pzeniac came out and stated that Assange leaked on behalf of US Intel, instead of ever addressing the discrepancy, suddenly there is some drama - in this case it was of a series of disappearing acts and th script is flipped, the questions are forgotten, people join in vigils for him. He reappears and never ever explains to his adoring fans where he was or what happened. From what I can tell he thrives on drama or depends on it to keep the story going. If the CIA wanted him, that would be the end of it.