Biden Border Crisis: Abuse of Unaccompanied Minors

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JUDICIAL WATCH SUES DOJ FOR ANSWERS ABOUT ITS CHALLENGE TO GEORGIA’S
VOTER INTEGRITY BILL

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For years we have reported
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on Democrats blocking efforts to make elections honest. Not
surprisingly, the problem continues under Joe Biden.

The latest battlefield is Georgia. We filed a Freedom of Information
Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice for records
of communications between the DOJ and various left-wing groups and
individuals concerning the DOJ’s decision to challenge Georgia’s
election integrity law (_Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of
Justice_
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(No. 1:21-cv-02427)).

We filed the lawsuit on September 15, 2021, in the U.S. District Court
for the District of Columbia, after the DOJ failed to respond to a
July 26, 2021, FOIA request to the Justice Department’s Voting
Section of the Civil Rights Division for the following records:

* All documents and communications between (1) the U.S. Department
of Justice Civil Rights Division, or any of their officers, employees,
members, agents, or affiliates, and (2) any of the following people
and organizations, including any of their officers, members, agents,
parent organizations, affiliated entities, branches, subordinate
organizations, or chapters, concerning the U.S. Department of
Justice’s Voting Rights Act Section 2 lawsuit against the _State of
Georgia, et al., in the Northern District of Georgia_, Civ. No.
21-2575:

ACLU Foundation of Georgia, American Civil Liberties Union, League of
Women Voters, Brennan Center for Justice, Lawyers Committee for Civil
Rights Under Law, Common Cause, NAACP, Georgia State Conference of the
NAACP, Campaign Legal Center, Fair Fight, Fair Fight Action, Stacy
Abrams, Perkins Coie LLP, Marc Elias.
The Justice Department’s lawsuit
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challenging Georgia’s election law asks the court to strike down
major parts of the act, including strengthened voter ID requirements
for voting by mail.

The leftists who control the Justice Department have a long record of
working hand in glove with extremist and partisan interest groups who
oppose any efforts to make it harder to steal votes and elections.

A week after the DOJ filed its lawsuit against Georgia, on July 1 of
this year, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld two Arizona voting provisions
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that
Democrats and civil rights groups had challenged as disproportionately
burdening minority voters. We and the Allied Educational Foundation
filed amici curiae
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(friends of the court) briefs in support of Arizona’s law. The
court’s decision is what I called a knockout blow
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to the
Left’s tsunami of harassing lawsuits challenging virtually any
effort by any state to modestly increase the security of elections and
minimize the impact of voter fraud.

In response to the Supreme Court ruling, the Left appears to have
become desperate to short circuit the efforts of states to implement
security measures such as voter ID.

We remain front and center in the fight for clean elections, from our
historic election integrity victory
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in L.A. County, to the current election-related lawsuits in North
Carolina
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Pennsylvania
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and
Colorado
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Attorney Robert Popper is the director of our clean elections
initiative.

In 2018, the Supreme Court upheld
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a
voter-roll cleanup program that resulted from our settlement of a
federal lawsuit with Ohio. Kentucky
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began
cleaning up hundreds of thousands of old registrations in 2019 after
it too entered a consent decree in 2018 to end another of our
lawsuits.

Based on this research, in 2020, a federal court ordered
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the
State of Maryland to produce complete voter registration records for
Montgomery County that include the registered voters’ dates of
birth.

In September 2020, we filed a lawsuit
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on
behalf of the Illinois Conservative Union (ICU) and three of its
officers, after Illinois state officials refused to allow them to
obtain a copy of the state’s voter registration database. In June
2021, a federal court ruled
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the
lawsuit could proceed.

After years of litigation, it is hard not to conclude that the
Democrats can’t win the game and so must change the rules.

HHS DOCUMENTS REVEAL SEXUAL AND PHYSICAL ABUSE OF UNACCOMPANIED MINORS

The Biden border crisis is as heartbreaking as it is horrible.

We received 41 pages
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of documents from the Department of Health and Human Services Office
of Refugee Resettlement that list 33 separate incidences of alleged
sexual abuse in just _one month_.

The records include a spreadsheet
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of data that lists 33 “sexual abuse allegations” involving
“unaccompanied children” (UAC) for the time period of January 21,
2021, to February 26, 2021. These incidents seemed to be tied to
“voluntary agencies” (VOLAGs), which are contractors for the
federal government. Ten of the allegations of sexual abuse were made
against staff and “non-staff” members. Twenty-one incidents of
children sexually assaulting other children while in government
contracted care facilities were reported. See the data for yourself:

NO. | EVENT ID | SA TYPE OF INCIDENT | SA TYPE OF ALLEGATION | PROGRAM
NAME
1 290249 Sexual Abuse Staff and UAC Friends of Youth
McEachern
2 290519 Sexual Abuse Staff and UAC BCFS San Antonio Staff
Secure
3 290969 Sexual Abuse UAC and Other Bethany Christian
Services TFC Michigan
4 291649 Sexual Abuse UAC and UAC Lincoln Hall Boys Haven
5 292060 Sexual Abuse Staff and UAC Mercy First RTC
6 292284 Sexual Abuse UAC and UAC Abbott House TFC
7 292365 Sexual Abuse Non-Staff Adult and UAC Bethany LIRS

8 294303 Sexual Abuse Non-Staff Adult and UAC Cayuga
Centers
9 294669 Sexual Abuse UAC and UAC Sunny Glen Childrens
Home New Day Resiliency Center
10 295225 Sexual Abuse UAC and UAC Sunny Glen Childrens Home
New Day Resiliency Center
11 296007 Sexual Abuse UC and UC Southwest Key Casa Padre
12 296169 Sexual Abuse UC and UC Sunny Glen Childrens Home
New Day Resiliency Center
13 296641 Sexual Abuse UC and UC Southwest Key Casa Padre
14 296810 Sexual Abuse UC and UC Southwest Key El Presidente

15 297632 Sexual Abuse UC and UC Southwest Key Casa Padre
16 298189 Sexual Abuse UC and UC Heartland Inti Childrens RC

17 298428 Sexual Abuse UC and UC Leake and Watts
18 298597 Sexual Abuse UC and UC Sunny Glen Childrens Home
New Day Resiliency Center
19 298743 Sexual Abuse UC and UC CHS Stanford House
20 298928 Sexual Abuse UC and UC His House
21 299067 Sexual Abuse UC and UC Children First Residential
Care TX Sunnyside
22 299640 Sexual Abuse Non-Staff Adult and UC Southwest Key
Rio Grande
23 299761 Sexual Abuse UC and UC Mercy First RTC
24 300102 Sexual Abuse UC and UC Friends of Youth Colin
Ferguson
25 300290 Sexual Abuse UC and UC Sunny Glen Childrens Home
New Day Resiliency Center
26 300467 Sexual Abuse Non-Staff Adult and UC Southwest Key
El Presidente
27 300532 Sexual Abuse UC and UC BCFS Raymondville
28 300650 Sexual Abuse UC and UC Southwest Key Cas a Houston

29 300706 Sexual Abuse Non-Staff Adult and UC Southwest Key
Casa Padre
30 300804 Sexual Abuse UC and UC Children's Home of
Poughkeepsie- Nuevas Alas Program
31 300848 Sexual Abuse UC and Other SWK Processing Center
32 301043 Sexual Abuse Non-Staff Adult and UC Southwest Key
Antigua
33 301253 Sexual Abuse Staff and UC Cayuga Centers L TFC
No details were provided as to who the alleged attackers or victims
were other than that they were UACs. Additionally, no incident reports
were provided by HHS.

On February 22, 2021, at the BCFS (Baptist Children and Family
Services) shelter in Baytown, Texas, a UAC reported
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that another UAC, a 17-year-old boy from Guatemala, had been punched
with a closed fist in his ribcage by his roommate while the victim was
lying down. The victim of the alleged attack did not want to discuss
it with shelter officials. The report notes “Minor was moved to
another room to ensure other minor’s safety.” The follow up
questions in the report: “Was the incident investigated?”; was it
“Reported to CPS?”; and was it “Reported to Local Law
Enforcement?” were all answered “No.”

On April 7, 2021, Fox News reported
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“Gov. Greg Abbott demanded that the White House close a San Antonio
facility housing migrant children Wednesday following allegations that
children there were being sexually assaulted.” Additionally, “The
governor said that separate complaints were sent to the Department of
Health and Human Services and the Texas Department of Family and
Protective Services Wednesday, alleging four different kinds of child
abuse.”

And it was recently confirmed
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that the Biden administration just this year alone “lost contact
with thousands” of unaccompanied illegal immigrant children who had
been released from federal custody.

We forced the release of the documents through a Freedom of
Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit
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filed against Health and Human Services for:

All summaries from individual case files of reports of physical and/or
sexual abuse or assault of Unaccompanied Alien Children under the care
of HHS, its sub-agencies, and or VOLAGs [voluntary agency],
contractors, grantees, and sub-grantees, to include all segregable,
non-exempt information.

Records reflecting aggregated data of physical and/or sexual abuse and
assault of UACs under the care of HHS, its sub-agencies, and or
VOLAGs, contractors, grantees, and sub-grantees.
These documents show that not only are there shocking reports of
sexual abuse occurring in shelters for unaccompanied children, but
that there is violence amongst the UACs themselves. It is no surprise
that the Biden administration’s enabling of human trafficking has
resulted in violence and the abuse of children.

JUDICIAL WATCH SUES HHS FOR DETAILS OF BIDEN’S COVID-19 COMMUNITY
CORPS

This spring, the Biden Administration announced that HHS was going to
launch “a nationwide, grassroots network of local voices and trusted
community leaders to encourage vaccinations, with more than 275
founding member organizations that have the ability to reach millions
of Americans.” We want to know the details.

We filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the
Department of Health and Human Services seeking all records related to
the so-called COVID-19 Community Corps (_Judicial Watch v. U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services _
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1:21-cv-02315)).

We sued in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia after
HHS failed to reply to an April 19, 2021, FOIA request for:

* All records regarding the Department of Health and Human
Services’ “COVID-19 Community Corps” program, which
was announced by the department
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on
April 1, 2021. This request includes the following:
* All records depicting the application process and selection
criteria for organizations participating in the program.
* All records related to the consideration of any organization
considered for participation in the program that were not selected.
* All records concerning any awarded or proposed related grants or
contracts with any organization participating in the program.
* All related records of communication between any representative of
the Department of Health and Human Services and any representative of
any organization participating in the program.

The HHS website
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describes the COVID-19 Community Corps as “an initiative to increase
confidence in COVID-19 vaccines and reinforce basic prevention
measures.” The government program also seeks to enlist minors (16
and older). The site reports
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“over
4,000 organizations and almost 10,000 individuals across the United
States have joined the COVID-19 Community Corps. They’ve committed
to take action to encourage their families, friends, and members of
their communities to get vaccinated for COVID-19.”

The federal government organizing a ‘corps’ of private
individuals, minors, corporations, and unions to push controversial
COVID policies is concerning. Also concerning is the Biden
administration’s unlawful refusal to turn over records about this
program to the American people.

JUDICIAL WATCH SUES HHS FOR BIODISTRIBUTION STUDIES OF THE COVID
VACCINES

The Biden Administration isn’t eager to reveal some of the details
of how the vaccines were tested before they were distributed. One type
of testing, biodistribution
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studies how a vaccine
moves through the body.

We filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for biodistribution
studies and related data for the Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson &
Johnson vaccines (_Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services_
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(No. 1:21-cv-02418)).

We sued after the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institute for Allergy
and Infectious Disease failed to respond to a June 8, 2021, FOIA
request for:

[A]ccess to biodistribution studies and related data for the Pfizer,
Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson vaccines used to treat and/or prevent
SARS-CoV-2 and/or COVID-19.
Similarly, HHS’s Biomedical Advanced Research and Development
Authority (BARDA) failed to respond to the same request sent on July
15, 2021, after the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious
Disease advised us that BARDA “would be the appropriate federal
agency to submit a request,” to obtain the records if they
existed.

The Biden administration should follow the law and release any
biodistribution studies concerning the vaccines. Americans have a
right to know as much as possible about the safety and efficacy of the
COVID-19 vaccines.

CALIFORNIA JUDGE HEARD ARGUMENTS ON GENDER QUOTAS FOR CORPORATE BOARDS

This week, Judge Maureen Duffy-Lewis of the California Superior Court
heard arguments in our case challenging California’s gender quotas
for corporate boards.

We filed suit
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in
Los Angeles County Superior Court on August 6, 2019, on behalf of
three California taxpayers, Robin Crest, Earl De Vries and Judy De
Vries. The 2018 law, known as Senate Bill 826 (SB 826), requires every
publicly held corporation headquartered in California to have at least
one director “who self-identifies her gender as a woman” on its
board of directors by December 31, 2019. The law also requires
corporations to have up to three such persons on their boards by
December 31, 2021, depending on the size of the board (_Robin Crest et
al. v. Alex Padilla
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(No.19STCV27561)).

The lawsuit alleges that the quota violates the Equal Protection
Clause of the California Constitution, among other provisions, and
asks the court to order that no taxpayer funds be spent on the illegal
provision. Both sides have asked the court to enter judgment in
their favor. The hearing was to address those requests.

In July 2020, the court cleared the way for the lawsuit to proceed,
holding
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that our clients had standing under state law to sue.

We argue
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in our court filings:

SB 826 requires that subject corporations set aside a certain number
of board seats for women or create new seats for which only women may
apply…. SB 826 imposes the additional requirement that one or more
seats be set aside or created for women. The only criterion for
occupying these seats is being female. Men are excluded from the seats
no matter how well-qualified they might be …
We included expert analysis
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from Jonathan Klick, Ph.D., J.D., an expert in econometrics,
statistics, and corporate law, who concludes:

In my opinion, the evidence offered in [the] declarations supporting
Secretary Padilla’s motion for each of these points
(underrepresentation of women on boards, discrimination as the cause
of this underrepresentation, and that research shows a differential
benefit of appointing women, as opposed to men, in terms of firm
performance) is deficient and unreliable.

California politicians want to use SB826 to upend decades of settled
constitutional law that prohibits discrimination based on sex. We hope
this lawsuit vindicates the rule of law and the commonsense principle
that the way to end any discrimination based on sex is to stop
discriminating on the basis of the sex.

Until next week …





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