Report: 400K Illegal Minors in US Without Oversight

The Biden administration's border policies have led to more than 400,000 unaccompanied illegal immigrant minors to be placed throughout the U.S. without oversight, with some of them implicated in committing egregious crimes against Americans, including deadly incidents, according to a report from the House Judiciary Committee, PM reported Tuesday.

According to the report, the number of unaccompanied alien children turned over to the Office of Refugee Resettlement within the Department of Health and Human Services is double that of the entire four years of former President Donald Trump's time in the White House.

"Most of these UACs are teenage boys, not infants or small children," according to the report, which added that Biden administration policies have led to gang-affiliated and criminal unaccompanied alien children being able to commit heinous acts and have also "led to the release of UACs who have gone on to commit egregious crimes against Americans." 

The report said part of the reason for the failing policy has been HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra's emphasis on the speed, rather than the integrity, of the placements.

Amid the sharp increase in teen males illegally crossing  the border, the House Judiciary Committee gathered evidence to show that HHS does not "have a policy to refer known gang members to the Justice Department," or a policy to “ask UACs' home country consulates or embassies for their criminal record despite having the ability to do so," according to PM. 

Additionally, HHS "never performed an audit in the case of the UAC who they released and went on to murder 19-year-old Kayla Hamilton," and the agency has "admitted that it does not currently have any secure facilities designed for the secure placement of UACs who pose a danger to themselves or others or who have been determined to have a criminal record." 

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