Whistleblower: Biden official knowingly allowed abuse of migrant children

A whistleblower who worked at a California migrant child shelter in 2021 came forward this week claiming that children there suffered poor treatment, abuse and rape while Xavier Becerra was Joe Biden’s health secretary. The Pomona Fairplex site housed unaccompanied minors during a major border surge. The worker says the facility separated siblings, sent children to unverified addresses, and moved children out secretly at night, some of whom have never been relocated. The staff accepted fake papers or even a simple selfie as identification before handing children over to adults who claimed to be their relatives or sponsors. Becerra, now running for governor of California, visited the shelter and called it “a model.” Broader reports from 2024 noted hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied minors with whom the government lost contact after release, raising sex-trafficking concerns. Becerra’s team has not yet responded to the accusation that much of this happened directly due to his instructions to relax child safety requirements.