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AL's avatar

I don’t like this one bit. corruption right in front of us.

elliottoberman's avatar

ICE stay out of our lives, you're not wanted or needed, as for this administration you are done.

Sharon Lee's avatar

We now have another issue to dissolve as quick as we can. This is dangerous for the children. 😞

Michelle Watters's avatar

Why does this not surprise anyone on this company not having any experience. I wonder if there were other bidders OR if this was rushed through? He is tied to someone up there! Thank you for sharing.

Fraser's avatar

Typically sloppy and lacks experience as any interview will involve a loyalty test,

also known as a "welcome to the cult" finder!!

Hope Sanford's avatar

This admin, as y'all know, is handing out no-bid contracts all over the place for massive sums of $$$. The reason this bs is "legal" is that they keep claiming that each situation(from war on Iran to DC reflecting pool) is an emergency. As Mr Wriston makes clear, the entire point of this is to scare the families and round folks up for detention and deportation. It fits the standard repuglikkkan tactic of naming crap they do the opposite of what it IS. Thanks for this article!

Glenn Snyder's avatar

Goodness me, those are our tax dollars going to this bullshit. Money that should have been used to lower health care or mitigate climate change or reduce energy costs. Ffs. Talk about waste, fraud, and abuse.

Jacqueline Yvette Hardy's avatar

god when is this nightmare going to end

Misti Friedl's avatar

About as terrifying as the “ blue butterfly zones” they’ve held teenage girls in down in Texas, I get black pilled by all the black mirror headlines, paralyzed by the fact that I cannot do a damn thing but try to survive, day to day. Grown to hate this reality, purposely a space for CHANGE, repurposing an old Baptist church, no religion allowed! Music, Art, Dance and Gardening, going to create new ways for community engagement, ALL THE CHILDREN, deserve PEACE, SAFETY. FOOD AND WATER— FREEDOM, we sll do. WTH do we move forward? 😭🤬

Leslie's avatar

This administration is looting us daily with these scams. These huge contracts are going to friends and donors of this orange satan. Why are we paying taxes? Why do we still hand them our money to fatten themselves on?

pakcanislupus's avatar

There seems to be a lot of shady roles, rules, and regulations.

Amy Suzanne Martin, MA JD's avatar

Let’s unpack “The children, who arrived in the country without a parent or guardian, were placed with sponsors — usually relatives — while their immigration cases proceed.”

Ted Kennedy knew, when he sponsored the bill to create the Unaccompanied Alien Children Program, that UACs were being smuggled into the U.S. illegally.

The program was created to house smuggled UACs, separate them from law enforcement agencies in order to protect their families from immigration enforcement, and hand them to illegal aliens in the U.S. without exposing those adults to deportation risk.

Yes, this was always what the program has been for. Enabling illicit child smuggling.

But illegal aliens are difficult to vet, and fraud is rampant throughout the program.

When these smuggled kids are abused, labor trafficked or sex trafficked afterwards here in the U.S., to pay a smuggling debt or to satisfy an abuser, they have no one to turn to.

Whenever influxes occur, vetting standards loosen in order to move the children through the system faster. This increases the risk of dangerous placements and trafficking. A whistleblower named Jason Piccolo complained to Senator Grassley about this in 2015. Congress knew but did nothing.

But given all the time in the world, a background check on an illegal alien is basically useless.

The program is inherently dangerous, very expensive and cannot be made safe.

But a bipartisan Congress continues to fund the program at Biden-era levels, and Trump has not asked Congress to end it.

Now Ted Kennedy’s nephew is finding new ways to disappear kids: since FY 2026 HHS no longer reports the number of children who run away from contracted shelters.

Government-organized and funded child smuggling and trafficking is an atrocity committed by a bipartisan U.S. government.

Katrina's avatar

I’ll repeat:

The Republicans are pure Evil. It’s not just Trump. This is decades of planning by Republicans to take over the government and make it a complete fascist and theocratic government. They have never relinquished bringing back the fascist Confederacy

Barbara Clary's avatar

The fact that this is happening is a national disgrace! Set aside the government misuse of funds…WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN? Why is this a new industry?

Terri Tatarka's avatar

Really. 200 Million! OUR money!

Jenn's avatar

We all know this is not set up to “ protect and secure”children from harm! This is very underhanded, corrupt and fraudulent! This is most likely set up to take children and traffic them!

There is no way the pedophile party has given up on their need to abuse and SA children!