By Garance Burke, The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Migrant children in the government's care were placed in U.S. homes and left vulnerable to human trafficking due to sometimes non-existent screening by the Department of Health and Human Services, according to a congressional report released Thursday. The investigation says HHS failed to run background checks on the adults in the sponsors' households, failed to visit sponsors' homes and failed to realize some sponsors were accumulating multiple unrelated children, which can be a sign of human trafficking. Lawmakers contend the government weakened its child protection policies as it was overwhelmed by tens of thousands of children...
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