Potentially Over Half The Guatemalan Kids That The Noemites Said They "Lawfully Screened..." And Were Then Set For Deportation, Exhibited Evidence Of Trafficking And Abuse -- But Noem Would Summarily Deport Them Back Into That Situation, Anyway... Damn.

On September 6, 2025 (as we highlighted, here) a supervising ORR/ICE agent named Angie Salazar swore that she had checked all the data-bases to be sure the kids she was attempting to dump, unaccompanied -- in Guatemala. . . were not sexually trafficked in or out of Guatemala, and that their parents or guardians had not physically abused them. That's what she swore to. To state the obvious, our treaties and federal law. . . prohibit this sort of abusive deportation. Dammit.

Via an inside-agency whistleblowers' complaint to Congress, we are reading tonight that she likely made false statements -- about at least 30 of the sampled 50 kids. This is. . . deplorable. Could she really have made "innocent" mistakes about over half of them?!

Read the whole thing -- but here is the most operative bit:

. . .Government Accountability Project represents whistleblowers who reasonably believe representations made by Acting Director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, Angie Salazar, to U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Kelly on September 6, 2025 in L.G.M.L v. Noem, a lawsuit filed to halt planned flights to return hundreds of children to Guatemala, were inaccurate. Specifically, Salazar stated that 327 children identified for return to Guatemala had been screened according to a list of criteria that ensured, among other things, the children would not be subject to child abuse and neglect, including human trafficking, torture and other forms of violence, upon return to Guatemala. . . .

These whistleblowers reasonably believe, based on information available in ORR’s database for tracking unaccompanied children, that at least 30 and possibly more children who were deemed eligible for imminent return to Guatemala, have indicators of being a victim of child abuse, including death threats, gang violence, human trafficking and/or have expressed fear of return to Guatemala, including in some cases concern for harm and threats from their parents. Additionally, because the information upon which whistleblowers base their reasonable belief is from ORR’s database, the whistleblowers reasonably believe Acting Director Salazar knew or should have known of the inaccuracies in her declaration. . . .

The whistleblowers obtained information they reasonably believe demonstrates that many children identified for repatriation do not in fact meet the eligibility criteria based on ORR’s data; if confirmed, this would render this evidence provided to the court inaccurate. By September 5, 2025, the day before Ms. Salazar’s declaration, at least thirty total, including 20% of a sample size of approximately fifty cases reviewed, had indicators of being ineligible for repatriation based on the excluding criteria. This data was noted and present in ORR’s database at the time of Ms. Salazar’s declaration. . . .

There seems to be no bottom, to the depths of depravity these miscreants will stoop to. Damnation.

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