Under the Homeland Security Act of 2002, which abolished INS and created the Department of Homeland Security, the care and placement of illegal immigrant children was transferred to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Children would fall under the purview of social service and not federal law enforcement officials.
"The government felt DHS was doing it from a legal authority perspective," said Teresa Brooks, an Office of Refugee Resettlement official responsible for overseeing immigrant foster care programs in the Rio Grande Valley. "They're law enforcement, and that's the way they are."
International Educational Services, which is a nonprofit agency, is one of more than 30 under contract with the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement.
Since January, the agency has received $5 million in federal money for two foster programs and the detention center where teens are housed a few miles away in Los Fresnos.
So it is all "Legal". We have lost our minds and are in the process of losing our country.
No, it is just a bastardization of the system behind a cloud of mumbo-jumbo as this sentence proves, "The government felt DHS was doing it from a legal authority perspective," which doesn't mean squat. Jorge and jerkoff are craping all over the laws and the Constitution of this country. Means about as much as algore's no controlling legal authority.