US waived FBI checks on staff at growing teen migrant camp
Source: Associated Press
Garance Burke and Martha Mendoza, Associated Press
Updated 3:36 pm CST, Wednesday, November 28, 2018
TORNILLO, Texas (AP) The Trump administration has put the safety of thousands of teens at a migrant detention camp at risk by waiving FBI fingerprint checks for their caregivers and short-staffing mental health workers, according to an Associated Press investigation and a new federal watchdog report.
None of the 2,100 staffers at a tent city holding more than 2,300 teens in the remote Texas desert are going through rigorous FBI fingerprint background checks, according to a Health and Human Services inspector general memo published Tuesday.
In addition, the federal government is allowing the nonprofit running the facility BCFS Health and Human Services to sidestep mental health care requirements. Under federal policy, migrant youth shelters generally must have one mental health clinician for every 12 kids, but the federal agency's contract with BCFS allows it to staff Tornillo with just one clinician for every 100 children. That's not enough to provide adequate mental health care, the inspector general office said in the memo.
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, said Tuesday that overriding background checks is "absolutely appalling" and called for the immediate shutdown of the shelter.
Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/texas/article/Desert-detention-camp-for-migrant-kids-still-13424824.php
iluvtennis
(19,758 posts)at these camps.
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)lark
(23,003 posts)The only thing coming from the Senate is treason and theft from the working class and giving to the rich. They don't care about potential assault or rape, hell they just promoted a rapist to the highest court in the land. And they certainly don't care about the health, mental or physical of these brown children.
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)Vinca
(50,172 posts)Bet they're hired.
Magoo48
(4,659 posts)Eric J in MN
(35,619 posts)...that they arent doing even the minimum to protect immigrant children.
Apollyonus
(812 posts)"Come work here, no one will check"