The largest supplier of enclosure for alone illegal immigrant children in the country, Southwest Key Programs Inc., is accused of widespread sexual abuse. It is claimed that employees and supervisors demanded gender and nude photos from children in their care. Since 2020, at least two people have been charged with criminal offenses in connection with the claims.  ,
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Southwest Key Programs runs a sizable system of homes in three different state. The 29 baby immigrant homes — 17 in Texas, 10 in Arizona, and two in California — can provide 6, 300 kids. The bank’s largest house in Brownsville, Texas, is at a turned Walmart with a capacity of 1, 200.
The business was awarded$ 3 billion in federal agreements between 2015 and 2023.
” In some cases, Southwest Key people threatened children to keep their silence”, the complaint says. ” In harassing these youngsters, these Southwest Key people exploited the family’s risks, language obstacles, and range from family and loved people”.
The Biden administration placed the kids with unvetted partners in his effort to stop the alone kids crossing the border. Some of the partners have been accused of selling the kids into slavery, which is a controversy that has been taking place.
However, this is a government company, and it needs to be thoroughly and carefully checked. That was n’t done, and the children are suffering because of it.
According to the most current information available on Health and Human Services ‘ website, which does not breakdown the number down by sanctuary or company, 6, 228 children were at all of its services on June 17. The organization declined to disclose how some children are currently in Southwest Key’s treatment or if the organization is still placing children in its features.
The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in Austin, where Southwest Key is based, provides substantial details, saying officials received more than 100 studies of sexual mistreatment or abuse at the company’s homes since 2015.
Among the prosecution’s claims: An staff “repeatedly biologically abused” three females ages 5, 8 and 11 at the Casa Franklin sanctuary in El Paso, Texas. The 8-year-old claimed that the employee “repeatedly entered their rooms in the middle of the night, touching their “private place,” and threatened to kill their people if they exposed the abuse.
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A federal judge lifted a specific monitoring order directing HHS to care for unaccompanied migrant children less than three weeks prior to the filing of the lawsuit. The Biden administration says it was n’t necessary because of all the extra” safeguards” it put in place.
How about now?
” While I applaud the work to correct the terrible injustices these children have experienced, I hope the federal government may also take some responsibility for the role it played”, said Leecia Welch, deputy legal director of Children’s Rights, an advocacy group.
Another lawyer involved in court supervision, Neha Desai, called the claims “profoundly shocking and shocking”.
” I hope the government takes the most drastic steps possible to make sure that the children who are currently being placed at Southwest Key facilities are n’t in danger,” said Desai, senior immigration officer at the National Center for Youth Law.
As long as the boys remain hidden from view, that’s all Biden and HHS worry about.
