Protecting Unaccompanied Alien Children from Trafficking and Other Abuses: The Role of the Office of Refugee Resettlement
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Levin Center Identifier
Document Date
2016-01-28
Report Length
56 pages
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Additional, Minority, Dissenting Views
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Yes
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Brief Executive Summary
From the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations issued a staff report regarding the problems of trafficking among unaccompanied immigrant children. The report uses a case study in Marion, Ohio where multiple immigrant children were subject to trafficking, exploitation, and abuse from adult sponsors, and seeks to find if this was an unfortunate tragedy or a systematic problem. The report finds that there were multiple structural deficiencies in this process ranging from inadequate sponsorship verification and background checks to deficient home check-ins and post-release assistance for the immigrant children.