Call comes ahead of a Subcommittee hearing on Biden’s management of unaccompanied children, despite the Trump Administration’s ongoing flagrant disregard for unaccompanied child safety
September 18, 2025 - WASHINGTON, D.C. — After a whistleblower disclosure alleged that the Trump Administration concealed information about the safety of dozens of unaccompanied Guatemalan children they tried to deport in the dead of night, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Immigration Subcommittee, and Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, are requesting an oversight hearing on the Office of Refugee Resettlement’s (ORR) mass child deportation efforts and apparent lies under oath.
The urgent call for a hearing comes after the disclosure alleged that at least 30 of 327 unaccompanied Guatemalan children the Administration attempted to deport without due process “have indicators of being a victim of child abuse, including death threats, gang violence, human trafficking and/or have expressed fear of return to Guatemala.” The disclosure contradicts Acting ORR Director Angie Salazar’s sworn statement under penalty of perjury that these children had been screened for removal to ensure they would not face child abuse or human trafficking in Guatemala. ORR’s criteria for removal, according to Salazar, explicitly specify that children do not “have...
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