WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 -- The Senate Finance Committee issued the following news release:
Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today demanded that the Trump administration immediately cancel a new Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) policy that orders care providers to stop reporting suspected instances of human trafficking among unaccompanied minors to an office of experts dedicated to handling such cases, further centralizing the Trump administration's control over children from federal custody through post-release.
"This procedure follows a pattern of decisions this administration has made that treat the safety of children in ORR care and custody as subordinate to its enforcement priorities," Wyden wrote in ...