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tion has started to shift
some of the caretaking of mi-
grant children from mostly
religious-based nonprofits
to private, for-profit con-
tractors.
So far, the only private
company caring for migrant
children is CHS, owned by
Washington, D.C.-area con-
tractor Caliburn Interna-
tional Corp.
In June, CHS held more
than 20% of the migrant chil-
dren who are in government
custody. And even as the
overall number of children in
U.S. custody has declined,
the federal funding for their
care has continued to flow.
That’s partly because CHS
is still staffing a large Florida
facility with 2,000 workers,
even though the last chil-
dren left in August.
Trump administration
officials say that CHS is
keeping the Florida shelter
on standby and that they’re
focused on the quality of
care contractors can pro-
vide, not about who profits
from the work.
“It’s not something that
sits with me morally as a
problem,” said Jonathan
Hayes, director of the De-
partment of Health and Hu-
man Services’ Office of Ref-
ugee Resettlement. “We’re
not paying them more just
because they’re for-profit.”
Asked during a White
House visit Thursday about
the AP and “Frontline” in-
vestigation, Trump’s Health
secretary, Alex Azar, pushed
back and said the findings
were “misleading.” But he
did not address the govern-
ment’s ongoing privatiza-
tion of the care for migrant
children.
Former White House
Chief of Staff John F. Kelly
was added to Caliburn’s
board this spring after step-
ping down from decades of
government service. He had
joined the Trump adminis-
tration as Homeland Securi-
ty secretary and backed the
idea of taking children from
their parents at the border,
saying it would discourage
people from trying to immi-
grate or seek asylum.
Critics say this means
Kelly now stands to finan-
cially benefit from a policy he
helped create.
Houston Police Chief Art
Acevedo said Kelly, a retired
general, told him firsthand
that he believed enforcing a
“zero tolerance” policy
would serve as a deterrent.
“What’s really the moti-
vator, the deterrence or the
dollar?” said Acevedo, who
signed an Aug. 14 letter with
dozens of other law enforce-
ment leaders asking Trump
to minimize the detention of
children. “I would question
that if he’s getting one dollar
for that association.“
Kelly did not respond to
requests for comment. But
in a statement, Caliburn
President Jim Van Dusen
said: “With four decades of
military and humanitarian
leadership, in-depth under-
standing of international af-
fairs and knowledge of cur-
rent economic drivers
around the world, Gen. Kellyis a strong strategic addition
to our team.”
After he left the govern-
ment, Kelly was widely criti-
cized by activists who spot-
ted him in a golf cart at the
shelter in Homestead, Fla.
The facility was at least tem-
porarily shut down in Au-
gust after numerous law-
makers said holding that
many children in a single fa-
cility was abusive.
Meanwhile, CHS was get-
ting more business housing
migrant children. Today it
operates six shelters, includ-
ing three “tender age” shel-
ters that can house the
youngest children — infants
and toddlers — in the Rio
Grande Valley. The com-
pany also said it has plans to
run another 500-bed shelter
in El Paso.
“The United States is thecountry in the world that de-
tains the most children for
immigration reasons, and
probably for the longest pe-
riod of time. No other coun-
try comes close,” said
Michael Bochenek, a Hu-
man Rights Watch attorney
who serves on a United Na-
tions research team examin-
ing the global detention of
children. “To have private
companies move into the
area of the care and custody
of children in detention-like
settings is especially trou-
bling.”
Melissa Aguilar, the exe-
cutive director of CHS’ shel-
ter care programs, said the
firm isn’t separating chil-
dren — it’s caring for them.
“We’re doing the best
that we possibly can,” she
said. “The children are bor-
rowed. They’re borrowed forour purpose, right? So a lot
of times when something is
borrowed, you take care of
them better than you would
something that is your own.”
Overall, the government
spent a record $3.5 billion
caring for migrant children
over the last two years to run
its shelters through both
contracts and grants.
During that time, CHS
rapidly moved into the busi-
ness of caring for migrant
children, an AP analysis of
federal data found.
In 2015, the company was
paid $1.3 million in contracts
to shelter migrant children,
and so far this year the com-
pany has received almost
$300 million in contracts to
care for migrant kids, ac-
cording to publicly available
data. The company also op-
erates some shelters under
government grants.
So far this budget year,
the Office of Refugee Reset-
tlement funded 46 organiza-
tions running more than 165
shelters and foster pro-
grams to care for more than
67,000 migrant children who
were separated from their
parents or caregivers at the
border or who came to the
United States on their own.
The Obama administra-
tion also grappled with how
to handle large numbers of
children crossing the border.
In the 2014 budget year, some
68,000 migrant kids were ap-
prehended at the border,
compared with 72,000 this
year. But President Oba-
ma’s head of U.S. Customs
and Border Protection, Gil
Kerlikowske, said that fiveyears ago children were al-
most always quickly reunit-
ed with their families or
other sponsors.
The number of children
in shelters grew under
Trump in part because of
new requirements that ev-
ery adult in a child’s poten-
tial home be screened sig-
nificantly slowed reuni-
fications.
Confidential data ob-
tained by the AP show that
in June, about 1 in 4 migrant
children in government care
were housed by CHS. That
included more than 2,300
teens at the Homestead fa-
cility and more than 500 kids
in shelters in South Texas.
For each teen held at
Homestead at that time, it
cost taxpayers an average of
$775 a day. Although CHS is
the first private company to
provide shelter for migrant
children, other private com-
panies have been providing
other services relating to the
care of migrant children for
more than five years.
GEO Group, for example,
runs several migrant family
shelters. Defense contractor
General Dynamics Informa-
tion Technology, whose
board includes Trump’s for-
mer Defense Secretary
James N. Mattis, has con-
tracts to review children’s
case files and make sure they
are reunited with their par-
ents or placed in safe homes,
often with other relatives.
Intelligence contractor
MVM Inc. holds contracts to
transport migrant children
by bus, van or airplane.
Going forward, the gov-
ernment plans to hand over
its facilities for children to
private providers who would
run them. Site searches are
underway to open shelters
with about 500 beds each in
Phoenix, Dallas-Fort Worth,
Houston and San Antonio,
HHS spokesman Mark We-
ber said.
Andrew Lorenzen-Strait,
who until recently helped
run adult custody programs
at U.S. Immigration and
Customs Enforcement, said
some former ICE staffers
now at the Health and Hu-
man Services Department
have brought the agency the
concept of privatizing mi-
grant child detention. He
said it mirrors a similar shift
that occurred with ICE’s
adult immigration deten-
tion centers, where popula-
tions soared after immi-
grants were moved out of
county jails into private, for-
profit facilities.
After 18 years of govern-
ment service, he recently
quit in frustration over the
agency’s actions, including
the treatment of migrant
children, he said. He went to
work for nonprofit Lutheran
Immigration and Refugee
Service, which places mi-
grant children in foster
homes.
“These aren’t commod-
ities,” he said. “This isn’t
Amazon.com. You can’t just
order up migrant care.”Burke and Mendoza write
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