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Child Services Investigating Report Of Abuse At Biden Admin. Migrant Shelter In Tennessee

By • June 18, 2021 5:02 pm

The Tennessee Department of Child Services (DCS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) are looking into a claim of abuse at one of the facilities housing the child migrants who have been arriving in record numbers at the US-Mexico border.

The Biden administration cleared overflowing Customs and Border Protection (CBP) facilities in May, transporting thousands of child migrants to emergency shelters across the country, including one in Chattanooga, Tennessee — news that prompted federal legislators to take a closer look at how the Biden White House was handling a “child migrant crisis” at the southern border, as reported by the Daily Wire.

Photos from March 2021, of the overflow facilities with crowded conditions because of the migrants arriving in record numbers.

Local Tennessee media reported at the time that “Channel 3 obtained video of one of those planes arriving shortly before 1:30 a.m. on Friday, May 14.”

“A second video, shared with Channel 3, shows more children arriving late Saturday night. According to the source who provided the video, a third plane carrying children arrived Friday afternoon. Flight records confirm that a fourth plane arrived early Wednesday morning, May 19,” the outlet wrote.

Now, the Chattanooga facility is now under investigation for complaints of abuse.

“State and federal authorities, along with local law enforcement, are investigating a report of child abuse at a Chattanooga facility that has come under fire from Tennessee’s Republican lawmakers for housing migrant children picked up by federal border authorities,” Tennessee Lookout reported Friday.

“The abuse was reported to officials with the Department of Children’s Services, accompanied by an interpreter, by a teenage boy at the facility during a surprise inspection, DCS Commissioner Jennifer Nichols told lawmakers on Wednesday. The boy reported he had witnessed abuse, not that he was the victim,” the outlet found.

Tennessee DCS has the right to implement unannounced site inspections and conduct interviews with children who are kept at the facility. Authorities usually attempt to interview youngsters who are living at the shelter during these site visits.

“One of the six children who was interviewed ‘disclosed that he had witnessed an act that in our policy would substantiate and require an investigation into that act take place,’” DCS wrote.

DCS, the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, and numerous other organizations are all collaborating in the investigation, according to a DCS spokesman.

“A referral was made to our own hotline, ” the spokesperson said.

“Local law enforcement was immediately notified. The D.A.’s office was notified. Since the day after that unannounced site visit, there’s been an ongoing investigation involving local law enforcement, FBI was notified, the Office of Inspector General for ORR — they call that the Office of Refugee Resettlement — and the federal Homeland Security have all been notified and are working in collaboration with local law enforcement and our department to investigate what this youth disclosed to Mr. Anderson that he witnessed,” the spokesperson added.

The Biden administration’s plan to rearrange hundreds of child migrants into facilities without informing destination states has greatly been opposed by Tennessee’s Republican legislators.

The Tennessee Lookout reported that “U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn, Bill Hagerty, and U.S. Representative Chuck Fleischmann filed legislation requiring the federal government to consult with states before transporting migrants to the state.”

“Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee requested the U.S. Senate conduct hearings on the unaccompanied migrant children,” the outlet also found.

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