Grassley Reignites Oversight of HHS’s Unaccompanied Migrant Children Program

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Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is renewing his sweeping review of the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) unaccompanied migrant children (UC) program. Grassley is demanding answers from 23 HHS contractors and grantees regarding their facilitation of the program – which, under the Biden-Harris administration, allowed tens-of-thousands of migrant children to be lost or handed over to abusers, criminals and traffickers.

“[Last year], I sent an urgent inquiry to two dozen organizations that provided care for, or services related to, unaccompanied children in the custody of HHS. The organizations within the scope of my review have received over $9.3 billion in combined taxpayer funding from HHS and yet have chosen not to fully respond to Congress. I won’t accept further delay while children are at risk,” Grassley wrote.

“It’s unacceptable for recipients of taxpayer funding to refuse to provide information to Congress about the use of those funds. And it’s beyond unacceptable for these federally-funded entities to refuse to answer questions designed to determine whether they protected children,” Grassley continued. “I’m determined to protect UACs in U.S. custody and expose, through my oversight, fatal defects in the process for the purposes of ending child trafficking and other forms of exploitation.”

Grassley sent letters to the following contractors and grantees:

1. A Greater Love Foster Family Agency, Inc.
2. A New Leaf, Inc.
3. Alba Care Services Inc.
4. Asset Protection & Security Services LP
5. BCFS Health and Human Services
6. Bethany Christian Services
7. Cayuga Centers
8. Center for Family Services
9. Cherokee Federal
10. Compass Connections
11. Endeavors
12. General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc.
13. Global Refuge
14. Heartland Human Care
15. Holy Family Institute
16. Morrison Child & Family Services
17. National Youth Advocate Program, Inc.
18. Rapid Deployment Inc
19. Southwest Key Programs
20. Sunny Glen Children’s Home
21. The Providencia Group LLC
22. S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants Inc.
23. VisionQuest National Ltd