{"id":1991680,"date":"2023-08-05T04:06:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-05T08:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-and-republicans-agree-bidens-child-trafficking-crisis-still-not-fixed\/"},"modified":"2023-08-05T04:09:50","modified_gmt":"2023-08-05T08:09:50","slug":"democrats-and-republicans-agree-bidens-child-trafficking-crisis-still-not-fixed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-and-republicans-agree-bidens-child-trafficking-crisis-still-not-fixed\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden&#8217;s child trafficking crisis remains unresolved, as both Democrats and Republicans concur."},"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\">24<\/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%2Fdemocrats-and-republicans-agree-bidens-child-trafficking-crisis-still-not-fixed%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=1991680&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--><h2>Congress \u2063Continues to Pursue Biden Administration Over Missing Immigrant Children<\/h2>\n<p>Congress is showing no signs of letting up on the Biden administration, even six months after a major report revealed that the federal government could not locate 1-in-4 unaccompanied immigrant children\u2063 apprehended at the border.<\/p>\n<p>Both Democrats and Republicans have spent the\u200b summer delving\u2063 deeper into the\u2063 whereabouts of 85,000 unaccompanied\u200c minors who were released to\u200b adult sponsors after crossing the southern border, but \u200bare now nowhere to be found. The New York Times\u200c first reported this issue in February, and \u2064it has since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/defund-the-police-is-over\/\" title=\"Defund The Police Is Over\">gained significant momentum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Concerns Raised by \u200bSenators<\/h3>\n<p>During a floor speech before Congress departed for the August recess, Senator John Cornyn\u2062 (R-TX) stated, &#8220;Of the more than 300,000 migrant children who arrived in\u2063 the United States on President Biden&#8217;s watch, roughly 85,000 could not be accounted \u200dfor 30 days after they were placed with a sponsor.&#8221; He also criticized Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra for prioritizing speedy placement of migrants with \u2063sponsors, despite\u200d credible reports of trafficking and abuse.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Alex Padilla\u200b (D-CA) \u200braised \u200bthe\u2062 issue in a\u2062 March hearing with Attorney General Merrick Garland, signaling that \u2064Democrats were taking the matter seriously. Padilla and Senator John Hickenlooper (D-CO) later sent a letter to the\u200b CEOs of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-and-republicans-agree-bidens-child-trafficking-crisis-still-not-fixed\/\" title=\"Biden's child trafficking crisis remains unresolved, as both Democrats and Republicans concur.\">major\u2063 corporations employing minors<\/a>, urging\u200c them to take responsibility for their companies&#8217; \u2063actions.<\/p>\n<p>Sens. Dick Durbin (D-IL) \u2064and Padilla pressed Becerra\u200b during a June hearing to explain why the HHS \u200bhad ignored warnings about releasing unaccompanied children into unsafe situations, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alleged-unfair-practices-cnn-bows-to-china-on-eve-of-biden-xi-visit\/\" title=\"\u2018Alleged Unfair Practices\u2019: CNN Bows To China On Eve Of Biden-Xi Visit\">including forced labor<\/a> and trafficking.<\/p>\n<h3>Legislative Action<\/h3>\n<p>In response to the growing\u200d concerns, lawmakers began taking action through legislation. Senator\u200c Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) reintroduced \u200dthe \u2064End Child Trafficking Act in\u2063 June, which would \u200crequire on-the-spot DNA testing of each child \u200capprehended at the border to verify their relationship with \u2064accompanying adults.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Rep.\u2063 Morgan Luttrell (R-TX) joined Senators Tom Cotton \u2062(R-AR), Marco Rubio (R-FL), and Rick Scott (R-FL) in introducing a\u200c bill that would impose new requirements on the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of \u200dHealth and Human Services\u2064 when\u2062 releasing \u2062unaccompanied children to sponsors within the United States.<\/p>\n<h3>Increasing Political Awareness<\/h3>\n<p>Political awareness of the issue continued\u200b to\u200b grow in July when House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) organized a special screening of the movie Sound of Freedom\u2062 for lawmakers. Several Senate Republicans sent letters to Democratic committee chairmen, urging oversight hearings on child trafficking to find immediate solutions.<\/p>\n<p>The film, which has grossed over $153 million\u200c since its release in July, has \u2062played\u200d a significant role in raising public awareness of this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-hoft-from-tgp-presents-at-transform-washington-on-january-6-web-conference-video\/\" title=\"Joe Hoft from TGP Presents at \u201cTransform Washington on January 6\u201d Web conference (VIDEO)\">modern-day form<\/a> of slavery, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/iowa-passes-special-session-heartbeat-bill-amid-raucous-protests-at-capitol\/\" title=\"Iowa passes controversial heartbeat bill amidst protests at Capitol.\">receiving strong support<\/a> from conservatives and endorsements from \u2062religious leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Despite these efforts, \u2064both lawmakers and the public remain \u200dunsatisfied with the lack of a federal response to the issue\u200b of missing immigrant children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress remains relentless in its pursuit of answers from the Biden administration, even six months after a report disclosed that 25% of unaccompanied immigrant children apprehended at the border were untraceable. Both Democrats and Republicans have dedicated their summer to investigating the whereabouts of 85,000 released unaccompanied minors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1991681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1991680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991680","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1991680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1991681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1991680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1991680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1991680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}