Biden Taps into Foster Care System

Thanks to Joe Biden’s reckless promises about keeping Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs) who make it across our southern border, his Health and Human Services (HHS) department is stuck with tens of thousands of such underage migrants. Last month, 18,663 children were apprehended by the Border Patrol, more than double that of February, and April is projected to be higher still.

After processing, UACs are typically placed with parents or relatives already in this country. When those aren’t available and there’s no more room in government shelters, what to do?

Someone, apparently in the HHS department, has come up with the idea of tapping into the foster care system, a program intended for American children without parents or whose parents have been declared unfit. In 2016, there were 437,465 children in foster care nationwide, about half of whom were in nonrelative foster homes.

The foster care system is administered by the states. California has by far the largest number of children in foster care in the nation, as well as a huge backlog in placements. (In Los Angeles County alone, there are 30,000 American children waiting to be placed in a foster home.) The system there is managed by the Community Care Licensing Division (CCLD), which also oversees child care facilities and nursing homes.  Now, Epoch Times is reporting that officials from the CCLD–at the urging of HHS–are asking parents to take illegal UACs off the hands of the federal government.

One such foster parenting couple approached by CCLD are Travis and Sharla Kall of Los Angeles, who talked with Epoch Times recently. The Kalls received a voice message and then a follow-up email in mid-March with the request.

“We were outraged,” Travis Kall said. “They’re literally going to use the foster system to facilitate human trafficking.”

Citing the backlog of placements in LA, Sharla Kall said, “We have children that are in horrible conditions right here, right here in our own neighborhoods. Do I want to help [the UACs], yes. But I want to know why they’re really here. I find it hard to believe that someone didn’t traffic them here. There’s no way that all of these kids came voluntarily. I can’t fathom that. Not in the world that we live in, not when human trafficking is a $150-plus-billion industry.”

The Kalls and others being asked to take in the illegals resent the suggestion that they participate in what they see as nothing more than a huge human trafficking ring, partly facilitated by the federal government. The Kalls, who already foster 4-month-old twins, also run a nonprofit organization, Goods for Hope, that fights human trafficking.

“They’re asking us to participate in the very thing that we’re fighting against,” said Travis Kall. “American citizens need to call their congressmen and senators and tell them they don’t want their money going to human trafficking.”

Good advice.

For more, see Epoch Times.

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