Rep. Gosar Says HHS Official’s Ignorance of Child Placement Statistics Is ‘Unacceptable’

Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) was thoroughly dissatisfied on April 18 with a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) official’s responses regarding the resettlement of unaccompanied illegal immigrant children.
“I find it very unacceptable, your performance this morning,” Gosar told Robin Dunn Marcos, director of the HHS Administration of Children and Families’ Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), at a hearing of the House Oversight and Accountability Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs.
Gosar’s comments came amid an exchange in which he questioned Marcos about the vetting process for would-be sponsors of unaccompanied children.
“In theory, if ORR is doing the job and actually vetting sponsors, they will have a statistically significant rejection rate,” he posited. “What is ORR’s sponsor application rejection rate?”…}