08/31/2014
Now self-liberated from CBS News, ace investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson is digging up facts on important topics like government secrecy.
The feds are particularly silent about the whereabouts of tens of thousands of illegal alien children it has redistributed all around the country, she has learned. The little lawbreakers have privacy rights, the bureaucrats argue.
Nobody cares about their individual identity, but taxpayers have a right to the facts about where the foreigners are being housed, educated and at what cost. Parents need to know whether they need to move their kids to private school if the public classrooms become too academically compromised by diversity.
Plus, theres no guarantee that the dumped kids will be properly immunized against communicable disease by the time they appear in Americas classrooms. If the kids dont get immediate first-class school services, then La Raza and the usual suspects will start complaining about anti-hispanic racism. Public health will be a lesser concern compared with jamming foreign kids into classrooms ASAP.
In the video below, amnesty hucksters claim that kiddies will be endangered by hateful racist Americans if shelter locations are revealed. In fact, citizen safety is far more imperiled by the so-called children, most of whom are teenaged (and older) males, some with gang tattoos.
Investigating Washington: Is the government sharing enough information about ‘unaccompanied alien children’ with the public?, By Sharyl Attkisson, ABC7 WJLA Washington, August 29, 2014
WASHINGTON (WJLA) — Hundreds of demonstrators marched outside the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agency on Thursday, demanding Congressional action on immigration reform. Many were arrested.
This comes as some states continue to struggle with what to do with the influx of unaccompanied children coming across the border.
The government has abruptly shut down operations at Fort Sill in Oklahoma and two other military bases that sheltered more than 7,700 minors the government refers to as “unaccompanied alien children.”
Thousands have been transferred to 150 shelters around the country, mostly group homes run by nonprofits. But try to find out exactly where and the government won’t answer — not the public or reporters, not even members of Congress.
Dan Stein heads up the Federation for American Immigration Reform, which opposes illegal immigration.
“It’s outrageous,” Stein said, when asked if he thought the government has a right to keep the location of the minors secret. “Now, this administration is telling the American people — and Congress — that we’re not even entitled to know where these people are, where they’re being held, what communities are going to be impacted.”
ABC 7 News compiled a list of more than 100 shelters around the country said to be housing the children, places like Boys Town in Cutler Bay, Fla.; Brazoria County Youth Home in Freeport, Texas; and Ridge View Youth Center in Watkins, Colo.
Dozens more shelters are in the works. That doesn’t count the more than 37,000 minors already released to family members or sponsors. The most impacted states are Texas, with more than 5,000; New York, California and Florida have about 4,000 apiece; and there are more than 2,800 each in Maryland and Virginia.
Critics say the government is improperly keeping details secret to avoid negative publicity and protests.
Nonprofit BCFS cited “negative backlash” as the reason it walked away form a reported plan to convert a Texas hotel into housing with $50 million tax dollars. Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) questioned the cost, which he said worked out to $166,000 a year per child.
ABC 7 News’ questions to the Department of Health and Human Services went unanswered. The department’s website says, “We cannot release information about individual children that could compromise the child’s location or identity.”
Stein agrees personal information should be protected, but not locations of groups.
“Clearly, a member of Congress can’t do his or her job in representing constituents, unless that person knows where people are being taken, and where they’re gonna be held, and where they’re gonna be released,” he said.
Wherever the children end up in the United States, they’re entitled to community health and social services, as well as public education at local schools already struggling with stretched budgets.
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