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'Not a single child should continue to suffer because of the previous administration's failures'

The administration of Democrat Joe Biden failed to investigate 65,000 cases of children flagged for "concern" when they arrived at the southern U.S. border and tried to enter, according to Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa.

A report in the Washington Examiner said the cases were noted by the government workers and contractors who addressed the situations of unaccompanied immigrant children in government custody after they crossed the border.

Grassley, chief of the Senate Judiciary Committee, shared with the Examiner documents he obtained from the Department of Health and Human Services.

They confirmed the administration of President Donald Trump has identified a backlog of 65,000 reports filed by workers about children in custody or their sponsors who "warranted concern."

Instead of investigating, the report said, the Biden administration prioritized the "expeditious release of children to sponsors."

"The 65,000 flagged cases were not addressed before children were released to adults in the United States between 2021 and 2024," the report said, and now Grassley wants the Trump administration to work on the problem.

"Not a single child should continue to suffer because of the previous administration's failures," Grassley told HHS chief Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

The report noted more than 500,000 children crossed the border unaccompanied under Biden's regime.

Often they encountered Border Patrol, then were turned over to HHS.

"As they interviewed children and looked into applications of adult sponsors, HHS workers and contractors flagged countless cases as being of concern," the report said, noting the 65,000 cases included 56,591 as triggering concern, 7,346 raising questions about human trafficking and 1,688 showing evidence of fraud "in terms of an adult posing as a related family member."

Grassley previously has raised evidence, and concerns, about the poor results of the HHS's Office of Refugee Resettlement, which is supposed to vet sponsors who take children.

His work has revealed records showing children were placed with suspicious sponsors, leading to concerns about trafficking and smuggling.

The report noted that during the Biden regime, two-thirds of the subpoenas issued for oversight were ignored.

In fact, Biden officials at the time ordered employees to refuse to answer questions.