DHS Sec. Admits Unaccompanied Minors Being Reunited With
Illegal Immigrant Families
by
Caroline May 24 Jun 2014, 9:07 AM PDT
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Department of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson admitted Tuesday that in
some cases the federal government is turning over unaccompanied illegal
immigrant minors to their family members who are also in the U.S. illegally.
“These kids that come here
illegally, they are law breakers already, and you place them with families, and
it’s my understanding that some of these families may be illegal themselves, is
that correct?” Georgia Republican Rep. Paul Broun asked Johnson in a House
Homeland Security Committee hearing on the “growing problem of unaccompanied
children” crossing the southwest border.
“I’m sure that’s true,” Johnson
responded.
Under a Bush-era law,
unaccompanied minors who are not from Mexico are detained at the border are
transferred into the custody of Health and Human Services, which unifies the
child with a parent, relative or sponsor in the Untied States.
Johnson explained that HHS has a
process to track the children when they move with the adults under whose
supervision HHS has placed them.
When asked why these people are
not being deported as well, Johnson pointed to the Obama administration’s
enforcement and removal priorities.
Since October more than 52,000
unaccompanied minors have crossed the border illegally, the vast majority of
which have been from Honduras,
Guatemala, and El Salvador.
At Tuesday’s hearing Republicans
on the committee blamed the Obama administration’s policies, Democrats pointed
to the violence in poverty in the children's home countries as push factors for
the migration north.
Jeh Johnson
Jeh Charles
Johnson is the secretary for the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security, and was a governor for the Roosevelt Institute.
Note: Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Roosevelt Institute, Refugees
International, Amnesty International,
and People for the American Way.
George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, is a director
emeritus for Refugees International,
and the founder & chairman for the Open
Society Foundations.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for Amnesty
International, and the Center for
Economic and Policy Research (think
tank).
Benjamin Todd
Jealous was a founding director, US Human Rights Program for Amnesty International, and the president
& CEO for the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored People.
National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People is an advocacy group for
the civil rights movement.
Julian
Bond was the chairman for the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People, is a director at People for the American Way, and a
director at the Center for Economic and
Policy Research (think tank).
Arca Foundation
was a funder for the Center for Economic
and Policy Research (think tank).
Margery Tabankin
is a director at the Arca Foundation,
a director at People for the American
Way, and the treasurer for the Barbra
Streisand Foundation.
Barbra
Streisand Foundation was a funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
Barbra Streisand
is the founder of the Barbra Streisand
Foundation.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, and Amnesty International.
George Soros
is the founder & chairman for the Open
Society Foundations, a director emeritus for Refugees International, and was the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for People for the American Way, Amnesty
International, Refugees
International, and the Roosevelt
Institute.
Jeh Charles
Johnson was a governor for the Roosevelt
Institute, and is the secretary for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
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