EL PASO, Texas (CBS4) — There is a new call to investigate the health and safety of migrant children who are housed at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas.
The Government Accountability Project, which represents whistleblowers, on Tuesday sent a letter to Congress and the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (HHS) to investigate and assess whether the conditions at the Fort Bliss Emergency Intake Site (EIS) and other EISs for unaccompanied migrant children reported by multiple whistleblowers last summer have improved.
Whistleblower accounts given to the Government Accountability Project detailed "gross mismanagement, chaos and substandard conditions at the Fort Bliss Emergency Intake Site (EIS) in Texas and other EISs, managed by HHS’s Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), that endangered the health and safety of the thousands of unaccompanied children," the letter stated.
The letter also includes information from Kaitlin Hess, who for the first time identified herself publicly as a whistleblower.
Hess, an Environmental Protection Agency employee and volunteer, was deployed to Fort Bliss from May to June last year to help with the influx of unaccompanied migrant children, according to the letter.
Her job duties at Fort Bliss included "case management support such as visiting the dormitory tents, transporting children from tents to their case managers and back, printing lists of children with whom case managers requested to meet." she also worked...
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