1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,799 The tax dollars of people who are listening are paying to put children in the hands of... 2 00:00:06,799 --> 00:00:12,320 And I said, look, I said, I need to make you aware. And they said, Tara, we don't get s... 3 00:00:12,320 --> 00:00:17,039 A government whistleblower with the Council of Inspectors General on Integrity and... 4 00:00:17,039 --> 00:00:22,400 has stepped forward to Project Veritas to detail her harrowing experience assisting... 5 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:28,080 placement of unaccompanied migrant children to the Department of Health and Human... 6 00:00:28,079 --> 00:00:34,239 In 2021, this whistleblower volunteered to assist HHS with the placement of... 7 00:00:34,239 --> 00:00:39,599 minors and was deployed to the Migrant Emergency Intake Site in Pomona, Californi... 8 00:00:39,599 --> 00:00:45,519 she witnessed the agency failing these children. As she puts it, doing the work o... 9 00:00:46,079 --> 00:00:51,920 on your tax dollars. These vulnerable children, we care for them, we clothe them... 10 00:00:51,920 --> 00:00:58,880 With your dollars and my dollars, we fly that product directly to the trafficker. 11 00:00:58,880 --> 00:01:03,359 God forbid it's sex trafficking. Project Veritas embarked on a nine-month 12 00:01:03,359 --> 00:01:07,519 investigation across the country to corroborate our whistleblower's claims. 13 00:01:07,519 --> 00:01:15,120 So he attempted to traffic children and he's still at address in Texas. 14 00:01:15,120 --> 00:01:20,879 Yes, we have 44 unaccompanied children at that address. We have 25 unaccompanied... 15 00:01:20,879 --> 00:01:26,159 that address. Project Veritas put boots on the ground visiting scores of addresses the 16 00:01:26,159 --> 00:01:32,319 whistleblower shared from case files she worked on. What we found was shocking. You... 17 00:01:32,319 --> 00:01:39,439 living with multiple older unrelated men and in one case from Gulf Freeway in Houston,... 18 00:01:39,439 --> 00:01:44,399 a young girl who admits to her female sponsor using her for sex work. 19 00:01:50,879 --> 00:02:18,240 I don't believe that this is something that HHS wants people to know. 20 00:02:20,879 --> 00:02:35,439 So tell me about your experience in the federal government. 21 00:02:35,439 --> 00:02:42,400 So I've been a federal employee for over 19 years. I'm a GS-14. I work for the Council 22 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:47,280 of the Inspectors General on integrity and efficiency. We combat fraud, waste, 23 00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:54,319 and abuse in federal programs. I've seen that there are large numbers of children 24 00:02:54,319 --> 00:03:04,960 who are being sent to the same location in some areas within a few square miles. Ther... 25 00:03:04,960 --> 00:03:13,520 300 unaccompanied children who have been released. It's just strange that HHS knows... 26 00:03:13,520 --> 00:03:20,960 children going to one area and yet they're not doing anything to say there's going to... 27 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:26,240 mandatory home study before we send one more child here. One of the things that has... 28 00:03:26,240 --> 00:03:35,200 administration is that they have relaxed a lot of the stringent vetting by creating... 29 00:03:35,199 --> 00:03:45,759 field guidances and there's a focus on move the children as opposed to place children ... 30 00:03:45,759 --> 00:03:54,239 homes. Right now it is speed over safety. Move the children 10 to 15 days. I am hold... 31 00:03:54,239 --> 00:04:01,120 guidance 10 from HHS which was enacted in March 2021. This guideline pushes expedite... 32 00:04:01,120 --> 00:04:07,680 unaccompanied children to sponsors according to our whistleblower within 14 days after... 33 00:04:07,680 --> 00:04:16,480 And what sorts of fraud have you witnessed? Name fraud, legal document fraud? So we ha... 34 00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:25,840 it's specifically in Austin where a sponsor was attempting to simultaneously sponsor two 35 00:04:25,919 --> 00:04:33,199 unaccompanied children. In one application said his address was at one location and then 36 00:04:33,199 --> 00:04:40,319 for the next child he used a different address of a neighboring apartment building. 37 00:04:41,039 --> 00:04:49,359 So same person sponsoring at two separate addresses. And who's he? So the sponsor here 38 00:04:49,360 --> 00:04:50,879 Edgar. 39 00:05:19,360 --> 00:05:25,439 So he attempted to traffic children and he's still at 40 00:05:28,480 --> 00:05:38,160 address in Texas walking a free man. Yes HHS does not want federal law enforcement 41 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:44,480 going after their sponsors in any way. Why not? It's a very good question that I don'... 42 00:05:44,480 --> 00:05:52,240 answer to. Our sponsors typically are not citizens. They are not permanent residents... 43 00:05:52,240 --> 00:05:58,720 legal presence. If you look at the data on the HHS website a majority of the children... 44 00:05:58,720 --> 00:06:04,160 across the border unaccompanied are from Guatemala. Why is that? 45 00:06:06,400 --> 00:06:08,400 Well I believe they're easier to exploit. 46 00:06:15,120 --> 00:06:17,120 No, I don't know. How old are you? 47 00:06:19,120 --> 00:06:21,120 Your father is here? 48 00:06:21,120 --> 00:06:22,160 No, he's dead. 49 00:06:22,160 --> 00:06:24,160 And where is your mom? 50 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:26,160 She's not here. 51 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:36,160 Who else lives here? 52 00:06:36,160 --> 00:06:38,160 Only six. 53 00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:40,160 Only six? 54 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:42,160 The little girl and four adults. 55 00:06:42,160 --> 00:06:44,800 Okay the little one and four. 56 00:07:12,400 --> 00:07:14,400 Six. 57 00:07:22,400 --> 00:07:26,400 These sponsors fill out a federal form. 58 00:07:26,400 --> 00:07:34,400 So if they provide false information on federal documentation that also is criminal. 59 00:07:34,400 --> 00:07:38,400 We don't know if the U.S. Attorney's Office in Texas knows about this. 60 00:07:38,400 --> 00:07:40,400 Right. 61 00:07:40,400 --> 00:07:41,400 They probably don't. 62 00:07:41,639 --> 00:07:49,639 I think most people don't know. They have no idea that children are going to unrelated... 63 00:07:49,639 --> 00:07:57,639 That children are definitely, we have proof, evidence that they're being recruited and... 64 00:07:57,639 --> 00:07:59,639 They're then in debt bondage. 65 00:08:11,639 --> 00:08:15,639 We know that children have been trafficked through the program. 66 00:08:15,639 --> 00:08:17,639 And the name of this program again is? 67 00:08:17,639 --> 00:08:23,639 It's the unaccompanied children program. So the UC program. 68 00:08:23,879 --> 00:08:29,879 So your trafficker in Guatemala, he's got to use the cartel to get his children across... 69 00:08:29,879 --> 00:08:35,879 But once he gets the children to the U.S. border, we take them. 70 00:08:35,879 --> 00:08:37,879 So we take the product. 71 00:08:37,879 --> 00:08:43,879 These vulnerable children, they're being transported to the U.S. border. 72 00:08:43,879 --> 00:08:45,879 And we take them to the U.S. border. 73 00:08:45,879 --> 00:08:47,879 And we take them to the U.S. border. 74 00:08:47,879 --> 00:08:49,879 And we take them to the U.S. border. 75 00:08:50,120 --> 00:08:52,120 We take the product. 76 00:08:52,120 --> 00:08:56,120 These vulnerable children, we care for them, we clothe them, we feed them. 77 00:08:56,120 --> 00:09:02,120 And then with your dollars and my dollars and the dollars of every person watching, 78 00:09:02,120 --> 00:09:08,120 we fly that product directly to the trafficker. 79 00:09:08,120 --> 00:09:14,120 The trafficker then has the ability to labor traffic that child until they're caught, i... 80 00:09:14,120 --> 00:09:18,120 And God forbid, it's sex trafficking. 81 00:09:20,120 --> 00:09:24,120 Look at me. What did you tell me? Why did you do it? 82 00:09:24,120 --> 00:09:28,120 Well, because she offered me. I didn't like that. 83 00:09:28,120 --> 00:09:30,120 Offered you what? 84 00:09:30,120 --> 00:09:32,120 I offered her to be with men. 85 00:09:32,120 --> 00:09:34,120 How long did you live with your aunt? 86 00:09:34,120 --> 00:09:36,120 I think four months. 87 00:09:36,120 --> 00:09:38,120 Four months, nothing more. 88 00:09:38,120 --> 00:09:40,120 But how many men did she force you to be with? 89 00:09:40,120 --> 00:09:42,120 Well, many. 90 00:09:42,120 --> 00:09:44,120 She forced you to be with men? 91 00:09:44,120 --> 00:09:46,120 Yes. 92 00:09:46,360 --> 00:09:50,360 Did she do it at her house or did they take you somewhere else? 93 00:09:50,360 --> 00:09:52,360 No, at her house. 94 00:09:52,360 --> 00:09:54,360 Why didn't I like what she did? 95 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:56,360 She forced me. 96 00:09:56,360 --> 00:10:00,360 And once the children are gone to the sponsor, there's nothing that we can do ab... 97 00:10:00,360 --> 00:10:02,360 There's nothing that HHS can do. 98 00:10:02,360 --> 00:10:04,360 We give the child to the sponsor. 99 00:10:04,360 --> 00:10:10,360 I said, do you think the child is going to take the sponsor to their immigration... 100 00:10:10,360 --> 00:10:12,360 And they're like, probably not. 101 00:10:12,360 --> 00:10:14,360 And I'm like, no, probably not. 102 00:10:14,600 --> 00:10:18,600 The child gets an order of deportation and that's it. 103 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:21,600 I mean, their chance to get their papers are gone. 104 00:10:21,600 --> 00:10:23,600 So they've been harmed. 105 00:10:23,600 --> 00:10:25,600 But why is that beneficial to the sponsor? 106 00:10:25,600 --> 00:10:27,600 And I say, case manager, think with me. 107 00:10:27,600 --> 00:10:29,600 Who gets the order of deportation? 108 00:10:29,600 --> 00:10:31,600 The sponsor. 109 00:10:31,600 --> 00:10:33,600 What happens? 110 00:10:33,600 --> 00:10:36,600 The sponsor can hold up that order of deportation to that child and say, 111 00:10:36,600 --> 00:10:38,600 this is your order of deportation. 112 00:10:38,600 --> 00:10:43,600 If you do not do what I say, when I say, 113 00:10:43,600 --> 00:10:45,600 I'm going to call ICE on you myself. 114 00:10:45,600 --> 00:10:52,600 We are paying to put children in the hands of criminals. 115 00:10:52,600 --> 00:10:56,600 She helped me. I escaped at night. 116 00:10:56,600 --> 00:10:58,600 So how did you get out of the house? 117 00:10:58,600 --> 00:11:00,600 Well, I went out. 118 00:11:00,600 --> 00:11:05,600 I told her I was going to the laundry and she came looking for me. 119 00:11:05,600 --> 00:11:08,600 And then she called the immigration. 120 00:11:08,600 --> 00:11:11,600 One day a case manager, she came running up to me. 121 00:11:13,600 --> 00:11:17,600 And she said, Tara, we're sending another child to Austin. 122 00:11:17,600 --> 00:11:19,600 And I said, what do you mean? 123 00:11:19,600 --> 00:11:21,600 So I picked up all my stuff. 124 00:11:21,600 --> 00:11:24,600 I go running down to the command center to talk to the executives there. 125 00:11:24,600 --> 00:11:27,600 I said, we're getting ready to send another child. 126 00:11:27,600 --> 00:11:32,600 And they said, Tara, I think you need to understand that we only get sued 127 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:35,600 if we keep kids in care too long. 128 00:11:35,600 --> 00:11:37,600 We don't get sued by traffickers. 129 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:39,600 Are you clear? 130 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:41,600 We don't get sued by traffickers. 131 00:11:41,600 --> 00:11:45,600 So that was the answer of the United States federal government. 132 00:11:45,600 --> 00:11:49,600 HHS did not want this information to get out. 133 00:11:49,600 --> 00:11:52,600 They knew I had made protected disclosures 134 00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:56,600 and they retaliated against me as a whistleblower 135 00:11:56,600 --> 00:12:01,600 and had me kicked off the site so that I could no longer research the cases. 136 00:12:01,600 --> 00:12:05,600 If you're a case manager and you know this information, 137 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:08,600 if you work for HHS, come forward. 138 00:12:08,600 --> 00:12:11,600 It's the only way the program is going to change. 139 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:13,600 Stay tuned for part two 140 00:12:13,600 --> 00:12:17,600 where we take our investigation from Texas to Florida 141 00:12:17,600 --> 00:12:22,600 and reveal more of the harsh reality of our whistleblower's story.