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Senator John Hoeven, along with Senator Chuck Grassley and 43 other Republican lawmakers, has sent a letter to President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. The letter calls for action to address abuses in the administration’s unaccompanied migrant children program. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has not complied with two out of three subpoenas from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and other information requests related to an investigation into over 100 suspicious sponsors.

The Biden-Harris administration has been criticized for limiting background checks for sponsors of unaccompanied children, reducing familial DNA testing at the border, and decreasing information sharing with law enforcement. The lawmakers are urging changes to policies and procedures to end what they describe as a public safety crisis.

They specifically call on the administration to enhance information sharing with law enforcement and Congress, fully cooperate with DHS’s child exploitation investigation, and respond thoroughly to all congressional oversight requests.

“[The Biden-Harris HHS] must stop its cover-up and cooperate with law enforcement and Congress to end this crisis and protect unaccompanied children and the American people,” the lawmakers concluded.

Other senators who joined Hoeven and Grassley in sending the letter include Bill Cassidy, Ron Johnson, Mike Crapo, John Cornyn, Lindsey Graham, John Thune, Roger Wicker, Jim Risch, Mike Lee, Tim Scott, Ted Cruz, Deb Fischer, Shelley Moore Capito, James Lankford, Steve Daines, Dan Sullivan, John Kennedy, Marsha Blackburn, Kevin Cramer, Mike Braun, Josh Hawley, Rick Scott, Roger Marshall Tommy Tuberville Markwayne Mullin Katie Britt Pete Ricketts.

Full text of the letter can be found here.