{"id":1029418,"date":"2021-11-18T21:13:54","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T02:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1029418"},"modified":"2021-11-18T21:13:57","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T02:13:57","slug":"report-bidens-hhs-loses-track-of-migrant-minors-allegedly-released-into-modern-day-slavery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-bidens-hhs-loses-track-of-migrant-minors-allegedly-released-into-modern-day-slavery\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Biden&#039;s HHS Loses Track of Migrant Minors Allegedly Released into Modern-Day Slavery"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freport-bidens-hhs-loses-track-of-migrant-minors-allegedly-released-into-modern-day-slavery%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1029418&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Joe-Biden-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">U.S. President Joe Biden\u2019s deputies appear to have lost a group of so-called \u201cUnaccompanied Alien Children,\u201d but insist there is no evidence they are under the control of labor traffickers, Bloomberg reported this week.<\/p>\n<p>Citing two unnamed people familiar with the investigation, Bloomberg, which shed light on the federal probe back in August, <a href=\"https:\/\/about.bgov.com\/news\/trafficking-probe-falls-short-amid-failure-to-find-migrant-teens\/\">noted<\/a>:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote readability=\"21\">\n<p>At least three agencies looked into reports of potential trafficking or exploitation of unaccompanied migrant children in Enterprise, Ala., and couldn\u2019t substantiate those claims, according to two people familiar with the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The Health and Human Services [HHS], Homeland Security [DHS], and Labor departments investigated the Enterprise situation but couldn\u2019t track down most of the minors who were placed with sponsors there, according to the people familiar with the investigation. It\u2019s not uncommon for federal officials to lose contact with unaccompanied children after their release from government custody.<\/p>\n<p>The dead-end in the Enterprise case highlights apparent gaps in the federal system designed to care for children who cross the border without a parent.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Bloomberg suggested some of the children no longer living at the addresses listed on their HHS-approved documents may have fled to a safer location with a relative,&nbsp;highlighting concerns that a network of labor traffickers may have used the Enterprise facility as a \u201cstaging area\u201d before moving the Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs) to other worksites. Some UACs are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/immigration\/2018\/11\/27\/dhs-400-migrants-faked-age-childs-status-to-get-through-border-in-2018\/\">reportedly<\/a> adults pretending to be children.<\/p>\n<p>The missing child migrants are a political problem for the administration, in large part because Democrats persuaded some voters in 2020 that they would treat the minors better than former President Donald Trump\u2019s team.<\/p>\n<p>Government officials are reluctant to talk about the commonplace use of UACs in labor trafficking \u2014often labeled&nbsp;\u201c<a title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"https:\/\/humantraffickinghotline.org\/type-trafficking\/labor-trafficking\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">modern-day slavery<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>But a very high percentage of the UACs are older work-ready teenagers. According to&nbsp;HHS <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hhs.gov\/programs\/social-services\/unaccompanied-children\/latest-uc-data-fy2021\/index.html\">data<\/a>,&nbsp;roughly one-third of the migrants say they are 17. Another third say they are aged 15-16, marking them as ready for work in their home countries. UACs are <a href=\"https:\/\/supportkind.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Representing-Children-In-Immigration-Matters-FULL-VERSION.pdf\">eligible<\/a> for work permits.<\/p>\n<p>The cartels earn money because migrants expect to pay off their smuggling debts with dollars earned from U.S. jobs. Many migrants also want U.S. jobs to aid their low-income families in their poor home countries.<\/p>\n<p>For example, Breitbart News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/crime\/2021\/11\/04\/illegal-alien-minor-murder-florida\/\">reported<\/a> November 4:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"28.712871287129\">\n<p>Yery Noel Medina Ulloa, a 24-year-old illegal alien from Honduras, was&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"https:\/\/www.firstcoastnews.com\/article\/news\/crime\/man-charged-killing-uncle-arlington-lied-name-age-report-says\/77-123d18c7-e81f-4e8b-b120-fc0b28a46fa4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">arrested<\/a>&nbsp;and charged with second-degree murder in the death of&nbsp;Francisco Javier Cuellar, a father of four children. Prosecutors are also seeking a first-degree murder indictment.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Ulloa, who turned 24 last week, duped Biden\u2019s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) when he showed up at the U.S.-Mexico border months ago, claiming he was an Unaccompanied Alien Child (UAC) named \u201cReynel Alexander Hernandez,\u201d according to a Univision interview with Ulloa\u2019s mother.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen he entered [the U.S.] he told me, \u2018Mommy, I didn\u2019t go in with my name,\u2019\u201d his mother, Wendy Florencia Ulloa, said, adding that he explained, \u201c\u2018I went in with the name of another person because right there at the shelter they helped me.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In a July 21 email obtained by Bloomberg in August, the director of the Department of Justice\u2019s (DOJ) human trafficking office revealed that \u201cindicators of labor exploitation and\/or potential labor trafficking of unaccompanied minors in Alabama\u201d triggered the multi-agency probe into the Enterprise case.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of these situations appear to involve dozens of unaccompanied minors all being released to the same sponsor and then exploited for labor in poultry processing or similar industries without access to education,\u201d the director wrote, noting that several jurisdictions have expressed concerns about the exploitation of migrant children by labor traffickers.<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg was unable to determine the status of federal probes into UAC-related labor trafficking and exploitation outside Alabama, namely in Oregon and the southeastern part of the country.<\/p>\n<p>HHS\u2019 refugee office cares for UACs after immigration authorities apprehend them at the U.S. border. The department works to reunite them with relatives in the U.S. or play them with a non-family sponsor.<\/p>\n<p>The allegations that HHS officials released migrant teenagers to labor traffickers surfaced as the Biden administration <a title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/border\/2021\/08\/30\/biden-admin-releases-18k-unaccompanied-migrant-children-into-u-s-in-august\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">released<\/a> thousands of migrant children into the U.S. in the wake of a&nbsp;<a title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/border\/2021\/10\/05\/unaccompanied-migrant-child-apprehensions-at-u-s-border-spike-636-in-2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">staggering<\/a> wave that <a title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/border\/2021\/10\/13\/smugglers-abandon-two-unaccompanied-children-at-arizona-border\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">continues<\/a> to fuel the ongoing politically fraught border crisis.<\/p>\n<p>HHS did not respond to Breitbart News\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. President Joe Biden\u2019s deputies appear to have lost a group of so-called \u201cUnaccompanied Alien Children,\u201d but insist there is no evidence they are under the control of labor traffickers, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}