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Judi Lynn

(160,219 posts)
Thu Nov 29, 2018, 12:43 AM Nov 2018

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

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US waived FBI checks on staff at growing teen migrant camp (Original Post) Judi Lynn Nov 2018 OP
Agree with Wyden, this is appalling. There have already been sexual abuse incidents by workers iluvtennis Nov 2018 #1
expect investigations into this soon beachbum bob Nov 2018 #2
From the House, not the Senate. lark Nov 2018 #5
Its one of taks of the House is government oversight, not the Senate beachbum bob Nov 2018 #6
Someone needs to apply for a job using the name Chester Moe Lester. Vinca Nov 2018 #3
It's a teen migrant "concentration" camp. Magoo48 Nov 2018 #4
It shows Republican bigotry Eric J in MN Nov 2018 #7
That is almost like an advertisement to pedophiles Apollyonus Nov 2018 #8

iluvtennis

(19,758 posts)
1. Agree with Wyden, this is appalling. There have already been sexual abuse incidents by workers
Thu Nov 29, 2018, 01:21 AM
Nov 2018

at these camps.

lark

(23,003 posts)
5. From the House, not the Senate.
Thu Nov 29, 2018, 09:33 AM
Nov 2018

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.

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