Biden admin lost ‘tens of thousands’ of children after they crossed border
The reality that America now faces actually is worse than the end result of Joe Biden’s administration essentially opening America’s borders and allowing millions of illegal aliens to enter, including gang members and other criminals.
It’s because tens of thousands of children came to the border, and were lost.
A report from Just the News explains a report from the inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security confirms that from 2019 to 2023, mostly during Joe Biden’s administration, more than 448,000 unaccompanied minors were moved to the custody of the Department of Health and Human Services.
Most were released to sponsors.
“However, more than 31,000 of the children’s release addresses were blank, missing apartment numbers, or otherwise incomplete,” the report explained.
The IG assessed that the problem is huge, and the threat to children is great:
“Without an ability to monitor the location and status of UACs, ICE is unable to facilitate court appearances and has no assurance UACs are safe from trafficking, exploitation, forced labor, or involvement in criminal activities that may pose a risk to local communities,” the report said.
The report explains, “After meeting with more than 140 individuals from DHS and other Federal agencies, we determined U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) cannot effectively monitor the location and status of all unaccompanied alien children (UACs) once released or transferred from Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) custody. ICE also was not always aware of the location for UACs who fled HHS’ custody.”
Among the recommendations the IG proposed is to have the acting ICE director “review and revise as needed Memoranda of Agreement and the Joint Concept of Operations between ICE and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and continue to work on information-sharing agreements related to unaccompanied alien children.”
Further, the same power structure needs to develop and implement a formal process “to review ICE system data and identify inaccurate and incomplete addresses for unaccompanied alien children and share this information externally with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.”:
Third would be for a plan to work on the backlog of unserved Notices to Appear for unaccompanied alien children.
Finally, officials need to update guidance to make sure the structure elevates cases when there are “concerns regarding the safety or circumstances of unaccompanied alien children.”
The IG warned, after all, that “as of October 2024, more than 600 UACs, who were released to sponsors, were later arrested in the United States.”