Now, imagine had this happened during the Trump years: would this be a huge story, or mostly ignored by the media?
DHS Watchdog: 30,000 Migrant Children Missing
The internal watchdog for the Department of Homeland Security issued a warning on Tuesday that that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency lost track of tens of thousands of unaccompanied migrant children, ABC News reported.
The interim report sent to Congress and obtained by ABC News states that in the past five years, more than 32,000 unaccompanied migrant children failed to report for their immigration court hearing and that ICE was “not able to account” for their whereabouts.
Inspector General Joseph Cuffari wrote in his report: “Without an ability to monitor the location and status of [unaccompanied migrant children], ICE has no assurance [they] are safe from trafficking, exploitation, or forced labor.”
Cuffari also urged ICE to “take immediate action to ensure the safety of [unaccompanied children] residing in the United States.”
During his investigation, Cuffari found that immigration officials had moved over 448,000 children from ICE custody to the Department of Health and Human Services, which is tasked with placing them with sponsors or in foster homes.
Those are two disturbing issues: first, that almost half a million children arrived in the United States without their parents, and that the Biden-Harris administration lost track of 32,000. Where are they? What is happening to them?
The issue of immigration figures to be one of the top concerns for voters in the upcoming U.S. elections. Since being chosen as the Democrat presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris has presented herself as tough on illegal immigration, according to her campaign staff.
Most of this occurred during the Biden-Harris years, especially since everyone involved at the federal level has been over-run by the staggering number of illegals pouring across the border.
(ABC News) In his interim report, Cuffari said that as of May 2024, more than 291,000 unaccompanied children had not been placed into removal proceedings because ICE had not served them notices to appear or scheduled a court date for them. Accordingly, the number of unaccompanied children who failed to appear for their court dates “may have been much larger” than 32,000 had ICE issued notices or scheduled court dates for those 291,000 children.
It’s hard to serve them notice when their are so many millions and millions who came since Biden-Harris opened the floodgates.
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