A Whistleblower Pulls The Cover Off Xavier Becerra’s Unaccompanied Minor Scandal
By Jennifer Oliver O’Connell / July 27, 2026 / Commentary
It is apropos that the same week that former NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci will be grilled before the Senate on his COVID deception and falsehoods, Joe Biden’s former Health and Human Services Secretary and CA governor candidate Xavier Becerra would also be in the crosshairs. Becerra is already under scrutiny for the 300,000 unaccompanied minors that went missing under his watch, when he served as HHS Secretary. On Monday, a whistleblower came forward and pulled the lid off of just how the sponsors of these children were vetted. Or rather, how they were not vetted. Thanks to the bravery of this whistleblower, we have a better understanding of how those children were farmed through Becerra’s assembly line system for illegals. An assembly line for which he berated his staff because it didn’t move quickly enough.
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.
Becerra had many willing partners. One of them was the District 1 Los Angeles Board Supervisor Hilda Solis, who Becerra called directly to use the Pomona Fairplex for farming these children to unvetted sponsors.
As RedState reported back in 2021: The White House called Solis directly to request this. Let that sink in. Along with her tight Big Labor ties, Solis was the U.S. Department of Labor Secretary during Barack Obama’s first term as president. She is highly connected to that administration, as well as highly corrupt, with union malfeasance, questionable appointments, business liens, and other dark money matters happening on her watch as both Secretary of Labor and now as a Los Angeles County Board of Supervisor. So, it comes as no surprise that she would be the one to get and answer this call.
The whistleblower brought her allegations directly to Becerra’s opponent, Republican Steve Hilton. 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. The whistleblower gave specifics on how the system simply handed those children over to traffickers to farm out for labor or abuse. “It was a complete joke,” she said.
Unaccompanied minors had information written in Sharpie on their arm; some had a name written, all with phone numbers. The whistleblower said that they would call the sponsor at the number presented, and some of the sponsors did not even know the minor’s name; they just knew they were supposed to get them.
“A lot of these people did not have proof,” she said. “We still have no proof that the child went to that address, because we couldn’t do any follow-up or continue with the case or see, welfare checks, we couldn’t do any of that either.”
The whistleblower then talked about the fake documents that were presented. Newly put-together IDs with selfie photos and fake birth certificates. The whistleblower said that they weren’t even allowed to vet the sponsors in person. Confirmation occurred over the phone or WhatsApp, and the minors were then released into that sponsor’s custody. “We were constantly getting information that is false, and we had to go with it,” she said.
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%.
This is the first of these videos to drop. Hilton promises more, and more amplification is needed to get the legacy media and the California press corps to bother to pay attention. But if the drumbeat of scrutiny grows louder, then Steve Hilton will narrow that polling gap and then move ahead.
The whistleblower testimony is gut-wrenching.
BREAKING: Becerra Migrant Child Abuse Camps
Whistleblower confirms Xavier Becerra dismantled vetting to speed up release of migrant children. Kids sent to sex traffickers, abusive workplaces, fake relatives. “We were constantly getting information that was false, and we were supposed to go with it.”
Becerra ‘lost’ 319,000 children. 140,000 are still missing.
“Sometimes [the sponsor] didn’t know the name of the child.” “Children were sent to sponsors who provided a fraudulent form of identification.” “We still have no proof that the child went to that address.”
More “Becerra Tapes” to follow.
(Editor’s Note: To listen to the 1:11 audio tape of HHS Secretary Becerra talking to his staff to speed up the process of placing unaccompanied alien minor children with unvetted sponsors and to watch a 4:05 video clip by a case manager trying to issue an unlistened warning within the agency go to:
Jennifer Oliver O’Connell (As the Girl Turns) is a contributor at Redstate and other publications. Jennifer writes on Politics, Pop Culture, and the American story, with occasional detours into Reinvention, Yoga, and Food. You can read more about Jennifer’s world at her As the Girl Turns website. You can also follow her on X and Facebook.
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