Republicans Flip The Script On The Biden Administration After They Lose Up To 85,000 Children Thanks To Open Border Policy

House Oversight Committee Republicans plan to attack Biden’s Director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), Dunn Marcos, on a familiar theme – that they have evidence that Biden’s policies have lost track of many as 85,000 children who entered the United States without accompaniment by a parent and that many of the migrant children are being exploited, according to Just The News.

This theme echoes the charges that Democrats misleadingly tried to use against President Trump placing “kids in cages” and losing track of such children. Just The News informed its audience that the number of unaccompanied children crossing the border has grown more than 10 times since Joe Biden took office.

Representative Glenn Grothman (R-WI), chairman of the Oversight and Accountability Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs, proclaimed in an interview with Just The News that “We have to do all we can to publicize this human rights tragedy going on in our southern border. We are not using DNA tests to even say who these children are or to make sure these children are going to relatives. They are resettling them across the United States. Even the New York Times — there’s articles about a lot of them working probably against child labor laws. We believe a lot of these children are forced to send money back to the cartels.”

Chairman Grothman demurred that “Rather than beef up the Border Patrol, they’re hiring guys and gals to take care of the dogs, which are supposed to provide therapy for the Border Patrol. e talked to a member of the union down there. They thought it was a joke. It’s almost unbelievable. Rather than hiring a dog to drug sniff, they’re hiring a dog to provide psychological counsel to our border patrol.”

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Mr. Grothman proceeded to go off about the voluminous pile of evidence of problems on this front. He mentioned that the rate of unaccompanied children crossing the border went from 15,000 during Trump’s last year to more than 130,000 a year under Biden.

On that score, a Florida grand jury damningly found that “ORR asserts that children fleeing from danger are adequately identified, properly cared for, and reunited with their family here in this country. In reality, ORR is facilitating the forced migration, sale, and abuse of foreign children, and some of our fellow Florida residents are (in some cases unwittingly) funding and incentivizing it for primarily economic reasons.”

Grothman seconded that finding when he said, “Smugglers are exploiting the Biden administration’s policies by profiting from the trafficking of migrant children into the United States. We would undoubtedly be greatly concerned if this many American children were placed in such dangerous situations. We should exercise the same degree of concern for migrant children coming across the border, particularly with the vast presence of criminal cartels in their lives. The Office of Refugee Resettlement’s negligence has contributed to migrant children being lost, released to sponsors not thoroughly vetted, exploited for illegal child labor in hazardous conditions, and in danger of being trafficked.”

The Wisconsin Republican professed that this policy may reflect a wish by the administration that “We want as many people in this country as possible to change this country as quickly as possible, and if once the kids come here we don’t have the staff to monitor them, where they’re going, well, we don’t care. Because we’ve accomplished our goal.”

Mr. Grothman also took to Twitter to describe the general sorry state of affairs at the border. 

He wrote “In March, @CBP [U.S. Customs and Border Protection] apprehended 191,899 illegal immigrants. Morale is at historic lows among Border Patrol, and agents are rightfully frustrated that policies in place allow crime and drugs to run rampant along the Southern border. The lawlessness has gone on for far too long.”

When he later confronted Director Dunn Marcos during a hearing on the administration losing contact with 85,000 unaccompanied minors who had crossed the border, the director after some meanderings did not deny that number.

🔥🔥🔥@RepGrothman GRILLS witness about the Biden Administration losing track of 85,000 unaccompanied alien children. pic.twitter.com/Z8PzcTDkSA

— Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) April 18, 2023