'Recent media coverage of the exploitation of [unaccompanied migrant] children has called new attention to the problem, but the issue is not new,' robportman & Amanda H. Neely write.
YUMA, ARIZONA - DECEMBER 09: Recently arrived immigrants wait to be transported to a processing center on December 09, 2021 in Yuma, Arizona. Women and children were eventually taken to the nearly full facility but many of the men had to sleep outside until the next day near the border fence. Yuma has seen a surge of migrant crossing in the last week, with many families trying to reach U.S. soil before the court-ordered re-implementation of the Trump-era"Remain in Mexico" policy.
In committee hearings following our investigations, we extracted commitments from the Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations to do better, and watched each administration fail to live up to those promises. If HHS releases a child to a parent or legal guardian, that child is no longer “unaccompanied” under the law and HHS no longer has responsibility for the child. In violation of the plain text of the law, however, HHS disclaims all responsibility for the thousands of children it releases every year to other family members or total strangers.
Congress has an enhanced role here, too. It should pass legislation to protect these vulnerable children once they are in the country. In previous Congresses, the bipartisan coalition of Sens. Rob Portman , Richard Blumenthal , James Lankford , and Tom Carper collaborated to sponsor the Responsibility for Unaccompanied Minors Act. Although these senators disagree on other policy issues, they came together for the benefit of vulnerable migrant children.
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