Rep. Jordan Subpoenas HHS Secretary for Case Files of Criminal Illegal Immigrant Children by Samantha Flom – US Politics News

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) subpoenaed Health and Human Services Secretary (HHS) Xavier Becerra on Feb. 20, demanding the case files of unaccompanied illegal immigrant minors who have been charged with crimes in the United States.
Mr. Jordan notified the secretary of the subpoena via letter, stating that HHS’s failure to provide full access to the requested materials was “unacceptable.”
The Judiciary Committee sought the files as part of its oversight of HHS’s “mismanagement” of the placement of illegal immigrant children, which Mr. Jordan said had resulted in “heinous criminal acts against Americans.”
The chairman recounted how, starting in June 2023, the Judiciary Committee had repeatedly requested full access to the documents, only to receive “a variety of baseless excuses” in response as to why the materials were being withheld….