Hi, everybody. Cheryl Ackison here. Welcome to another edition of Full Measure after hours.

Today, a federal whistleblower reveals shocking lapses in the vetting of so-called sponsors

for children who cross into the U.S. illegally without their parents.

Deborah White is a federal employee who inadvertently became a whistleblower in the scandal

that is the management of the tens of thousands of illegal immigrant children that came

into the U.S. but the U.S. lost track of.

Many experts say some at least are likely in the hands of cartels, gangs, sex and work

traffickers. Deborah White works for the General Services Administration as a contracting

and project management professional, and she was in that job in 2021, as you'll hear, when she got a call

to go on a temporary assignment that would change everything she thought about what our government

was doing to care for children who crossed into the U.S. illegally without their parents. Here's Debra White.

Sure. So in the summer of 2021, or spring, I should say,

May time frame, I had seen an all call from the executive branch saying we need all employees to help support on the southern border with the crisis, all the migrant children that were coming across.

They weren't able to process all of the children

in time with the amount of staff that they had on hand.

So there were several agencies that sent people

to go ahead and help Health and Human Services

Office of Refugee Resettlement Program

to process the children. What does processing them mean?

Literally probably how it sounds. So we had tons of kids coming up from the southern border

to facilities across the country. So I believe at the time in 2021, they had 14 facilities

across the country that I know of that were emergency intake sites.

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