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From: Heidi Hess, CREDO Action [mailto:act@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] ;
Sent: Friday, February 12, 2016 9:15 AM
To: Miriam Vieni
Subject: Sign the petition: Migrant children forced to work 12 hours a day
CREDO action
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Protect
<https://act.credoaction.com/sign/Migrant_Trafficking?t=1&akid=16799.967351.
FY7NHw> migrant children from trafficking
The petition to Sens. Rob Portman and Claire McCaskill reads:
"Take immediate legislative action to ensure that HHS has all of the
resources necessary to protect unaccompanied migrant children from being
trafficked."
Add your name:
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FY7NHw> Sign the petition ?
Dear Miriam,
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FY7NHw> UNACCEPTABLE
It's appalling. According to a recent Washington Post report, President
Obama's administration has failed to protect thousands of Central American
children coming to the United States to escape violence by "leaving them
vulnerable to drug traffickers" and subject to "abuses at the hands of
government-approved caretakers."1
The Washington Post's report was based on an extremely disturbing report
released by Sens. Rob Portman and Claire McCaskill, respectively the
chairman and ranking member of the Senate Subcommittee on Investigations,
detailing confirmed and suspected cases of trafficking.2 The report makes it
clear that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) - the agency
responsible for the children's welfare - failed to take the necessary steps
to ensure children were being placed with safe, responsible guardians.
This is unacceptable. Last year, HHS requested additional funds from
Congress to ensure the safety of the unaccompanied minors here now and the
ones who will follow them. If Sens. Portman and McCaskill are concerned
about the safety of these children they must lead the fight to make sure HHS
has every resource it needs.
<https://act.credoaction.com/sign/Migrant_Trafficking?t=4&akid=16799.967351.
FY7NHw> Tell Sens. Portman and McCaskill: Ensure that HHS has all the
necessary resources to protect child refugees fleeing violence. Click here
to sign the petition
The Senate report found that before placing children with U.S. sponsors,
HHS' Office of Refugee Resettlement failed to do proper background checks of
the adults who claimed the children, failed to notice when sponsors took
custody of multiple unrelated children, and failed to visit the homes into
which they were placing children.3 The stories outlined in the report
demonstrate not only the profound negligence of HHS, but the degree to which
people take advantage of that negligence to exploit and harm children:
*
A man in Ohio pretended to sponsor at least 10 unrelated teenage boys.
Instead of caring for them and enrolling them in school, he forced them to
sleep in the dirt under an RV and work 12-plus-hour days on his egg farm.
*
A man in central Florida forced his 14-year-old Honduran step-daughter to
work in cantinas where she entertained the male patrons by dancing and
having sex with them.
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A man helped pay the way for a girl he had never met to come to the U.S. as
a sort of mail-order bride. After collecting her from HHS, he forced her to
have sex with him. This man was so confident in the inadequacy of HHS
security protocols that he essentially used HHS as a drop-off location for
sex-trafficking3.
In the past five years, 90,000 children have been placed with sponsors.3 We
will never be able to know how many are now living in slavery. Violence in
Central America is increasing and we are likely to see similar levels of
unaccompanied minors seeking safety in the U.S. in 2016. If we don't do
something, this will keep happening.
We need Sens. Portman and McCaskill to step forward as champions for these
children.
<https://act.credoaction.com/sign/Migrant_Trafficking?t=5&akid=16799.967351.
FY7NHw> Tell them to ensure that HHS has all the necessary resources to
protect child refugees fleeing violence. Click here to sign the petition.
We have an obligation as a country to do better for all of the children
currently in U.S. custody, and for any child who will enter this country in
the future. When the Senate released its shocking report, Sen. McCaskill
said we need to "quit thinking about what's on paper and start thinking
about these children."4 Sen. Portman said, "Whatever your views on
immigration policy, everyone can agree that the administration has a
responsibility to ensure the safety of the migrant kids that have entered
government custody until their immigration court date."5
If these senators are really committed to ensuring these children's safety,
it's time for them to step up in Congress and make sure that HHS can do its
job. Click the link below to sign the petition.
https://act.credoaction.com/sign/Migrant_Trafficking?t=7
<https://act.credoaction.com/sign/Migrant_Trafficking?t=6&akid=16799.967351.
FY7NHw> &akid=16799.967351.FY7NHw
Thank you for standing for children,
Heidi Hess, Senior Campaign Manager
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Action from Working Assets
Add your name:
<https://act.credoaction.com/sign/Migrant_Trafficking?t=9&akid=16799.967351.
FY7NHw> Sign the petition ?
References
1. Abbie VanSickle, "Obama
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administration placed children with human traffickers, report says," The
Washington Post, 1/28/2016.
2. "Adequacy
<http://act.credoaction.com/go/10645?t=11&akid=16799.967351.FY7NHw> of the
Department of Health and Human Services' Efforts to Protect Unaccompanied
Alien Children From Human Trafficking," Senate Permanent Subcommittee on
Investigations, 1/28/2016.
3. Garance Burke, "AP
<http://act.credoaction.com/go/10646?t=12&akid=16799.967351.FY7NHw>
INVESTIGATION: Feds' failures imperil migrant children," AP News, 1/25/2016.
4. "McCaskill
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Investigation Takes Aim at Human Trafficking of Kids," Office of Senator
McCaskill, 1/28/2016.
5. Emmarie Huetteman, "U.S.
<http://act.credoaction.com/go/10648?t=14&akid=16799.967351.FY7NHw> Placed
Immigrant Children With Traffickers, Report Says," The New York Times,
1/28/2016.
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