Exclusive | Xavier Becerras campaign rocked by horrifying claims about missing migrant kids under his watch

Xavier Becerra faces a renewed scandal over his tenure as Joe Biden’s health secretary after a whistleblower came forward to expose the horrific levels of abuse and exploitation of hundreds of thousands of migrant children faced while in detention in California.A caseworker at the Pomona Fairplex alleges children faced abuse and chaotic releases, were separated from  young siblings, and sent to unverified addresses or secretly moved in the dead of the night — some never to be seen again — while the complex also accepted fake  documents from sponsors.During his time as Biden’s health secretary from 2021 to 2025, the U.S.faced an overwhelming border crisis, with just under 480,000 unaccompanied minors crossing the border.

The HHS was the federal agency legally mandated to care for and protect unaccompanied migrant children.Multiple emergency intake sites were set up across the country to process the children, including in Texas, Florida and California, where there were three: San Diego, Long Beach and Pomona.The whistleblower, who brought the allegations to rival gubernatorial Republican candidate Steve Hilton, is a first-generation American and mother of two who’s family moved from El Salvador and was raised in Southern California.Her shocking claims come as Hilton zeros in on Becerra’s controversial and much-criticized term as health secretary ahead of the general election for governor of California on November 3.The latest poll for the race, by the Public Policy Institute of California, found the Democrat ahead of Hilton 61% to 36%.Becerra toured the Fairplex complex in July 2021, and called it a “a model” for other sites across America and a place where kids could be ‘’healthy and safe.’’In her six months working at the center in 2021, the whistleblower claims her concerns about what was happening to vulnerable children were routinely ignored because of pressure to reunify minors with sponsors, despite no clear evidence of any connecti...