HHS didn't check homes before giving migrant kids to traffickers

Health and Human Services delivered over at least six migrant children from Guatemala into the hands of human traffickers without visiting the homes where they would live or verifying any family connection to them, a Senate committee has found.

Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, a leading crusader fighting to crack down on the trafficking of children in the United States, said the Ohio case is just one of many examples of HHS’s systemic lapses in the way it handles the placement of migrant children out of U.S. detention centers for illegal immigrants.