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LTC Stephen F.
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If true that indeed is horrible news Lt Col Charlie Brown. It is very interesting that the Washington Post whose editors generally supported former POTUS Obama would include this report.
"The Obama administration failed to protect thousands of Central American children who have flooded across the U.S. border since 2011, leaving them vulnerable to traffickers and to abuses at the hands of government-approved caretakers, a Senate investigation has found.
The Office of Refugee Resettlement, an agency of the Department of Health and Human Services, failed to do proper background checks of adults who claimed the children, allowed sponsors to take custody of multiple unrelated children, and regularly placed children in homes without visiting the locations, according to a 56-page investigative report released Thursday.
And once the children left federally funded shelters, the report said, the agency permitted their adult sponsors to prevent caseworkers from providing them post-release services.
Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) initiated the six-month investigation after several Guatemalan teens were found in a dilapidated trailer park near Marion, Ohio, where they were being held captive by traffickers and forced to work at a local egg farm. The boys were among more than 125,000 unaccompanied minors who have surged into the United States since 2011, fleeing violence and unrest in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador."

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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
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Would be more believable if source wasn't a Republican politician. Sounds more like an attempt to downplay the current policy of separating children from their mothers.
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Lt Col Charlie Brown
Lt Col Charlie Brown
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The Washington Post is a very left leaning paper. They would much rathet Not run this story. Obviously there is proof.
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
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Yes, that was my initial thought as well. Time will tell I guess, always skeptical of stories like this that break on weekends.
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Lt Col Charlie Brown
Lt Col Charlie Brown
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And not that I love President Trump, but he was pretty clear that the way the system is working was set in place by the previous administration
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