![]() Hundreds of children reportedly went weeks without receiving updates from case managers. ![]() Moreover, in the early months of operation at Fort Bliss, ORR was not able to provide the inexperienced hires with adequate training. When inexperienced case managers handle cases without knowing child-welfare best practices, the risk of releasing unaccompanied children to unsafe or simply inappropriate sponsors increases. It had to hire inexperienced managers too. ![]() ORR had to employ nearly 300 case managers within a month of opening its EIS at Fort Bliss, and it was not able to meet this need with experienced case managers. The treatment of unaccompanied children is governed by several statutes and a legal settlement which require the administration to transfer them to the custody of HHS’s Office of Refugee Resettlement ( ORR) and allow them to apply for asylum or other forms of relief from being sent home. ![]() 30, 2022, the immigration courts had a backlog of more than 1.9 million cases, and the average wait for a hearing was 798 days - more than two years.īut I am more concerned about how the large numbers are disrupting the administration’s ability to process Unaccompanied Alien Children and place them in safe, appropriate foster homes. This has overwhelmed our immigration courts. §1325(a) provides that, “Any alien who (1) enters or attempts to enter the United States at any time or place other than as designated by immigration officers” shall be fined or imprisoned for not more than 6 months, or both for a first offense. Presumably, most of the illegal crossers said they were asylum seekers, but that does not make an improper entry lawful 8 U.S.C. (The current Title 42 policy is predicated on the COVID pandemic, which - at some point - must officially be declared over.) Texas case indicate that the administration already has released more than 1 million illegal crossers into the country, and releases are likely to increase dramatically when Title 42 expulsions stop, which is inevitable. Unfortunately, we still have too many undocumented migrants entering our country.īiden administration disclosures in the Biden v.
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