Biden Administration Blocking Investigation of Migrant Child Trafficking Operations

In the final months of the Biden-Harris Administration, the White House is actively blocking congressional attempts to investigate the exploitation and trafficking of children by illegal aliens at the southern border.

As the Daily Caller reports, the claims were made by Senator Bill Cassidy (R-La.) in a report released on Tuesday. Cassidy, the ranking member of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, accused the Biden-Harris Administration of systematic “failures” that have led to abuse of illegal alien children on a massive scale, only for the administration to engage in “stonewalling” against any attempts at congressional oversight.

“When Ranking Member Cassidy attempted to hold the Biden-Harris administration accountable, the administration made every effort to cover its failures up and to stonewall each new oversight effort — a course of action that continues today,” the report explains. “The administration also refuses to comply with state-level efforts to investigate and prevent the trafficking and exploitation of [unaccompanied children] caused by its own weak sponsor vetting policies and the chaos.”

Cassidy’s report said that he would “routinely” send letters to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) demanding information on the state of the children that are taken in by the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), only for the agency to deliberately take months just to respond, if they responded at all.

The fate of hundreds of thousands of illegal children have been highlighted as a prime example of the outgoing administration’s complete refusal to engage in any oversight on the southern border, instead opting for an open-borders approach that simply let illegals flood in with no scrutiny or enforcement of the most basic laws. In August of this year, the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Office of the Inspector General released a report confirming that federal authorities had lost track of tens of thousands of unaccompanied children since 2019.

“The exploitation of unaccompanied children has been documented for years,” said Cassidy in a press release. “The Biden-Harris administration should have fixed its policies to protect these children, but instead it subverted Congress and states to cover up its mistakes. This lack of transparency to the American people is reprehensible. It is hard to see this as anything other than an attempt to shield the Biden-Harris administration from accountability.”