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| Feds lost track of tens of thousands of unaccompanied alien children after release: DHS OIG report | ||
| 2025-03-28 | ||
| [FoxNews] Rep. Tony Gonzales: 'The Biden administration’s total failure at the border had disastrous consequences, and it’s shameful that even innocent, unaccompanied children were caught in the crosshairs' In a new report, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) inspector general found that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is unable to effectively monitor the location and status of each unaccompanied alien child (UAC) who comes into the U.S. illegally and is released from custody. Inspector General Joseph V. Cuffari said in the report that between fiscal years 2019 and 2023, ICE transferred over 448,000 UACs into the custody of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. From there, most of the UACs were released to sponsors.
Cuffari said an investigation into the matter found ICE did not issue notices to appear (NTA) to all UACs, which would have generated assignment of immigration court dates by the Department of Justice (DOJ), and as of January this year, it had not served NTAs on over 233,000 unaccompanied children. Of the UACs who were served NTAs before October 2024, over 43,000 failed to appear for their scheduled court dates. The report also found that ICE was not always notified about the safety or status of the children unless it received a tip. However, those issues, the IG said, happened because ICE was not always notified about the locations of sponsors by other federal agencies Cuffari acknowledged staffing to be able to monitor each UAC was limited, and without that ability, there was no assurance the children were safe from trafficking, exploitation, forced labor or criminal activity. Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-Tex., brought up the crisis involving unaccompanied alien minors during a House Homeland Security Committee Subcommittee on Border Security and Enforcement hearing on March 25. He was told that during the Biden administration, HHS lost track of many of the minors and that some were subjected to trafficking, child labor and other things. "The Biden administration’s total failure at the border had disastrous consequences, and it’s shameful that even innocent, unaccompanied children were caught in the crosshairs," Gonzales told FOX News. "The fact that we can’t locate tens of thousands of these minors in the U.S. is completely unacceptable, as it’s likely that many of these children have ended up in dangerous situations. Not having answers is unacceptable, and it’s past time to put our heads together to fix this problem for good." Related: DHS: 2025-03-27 Mexican cartels' TikTok recruiting scheme squashed as border agent sounds alarm on lingering threat DHS: 2025-03-26 Teen on Royal Caribbean cruise attacked by HIV-infected illegal immigrant: police DHS: 2025-03-26 HUD, Homeland Security: new initiative to end ‘wasteful misappropriation’ of public housing to illegal immigrants. | ||
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #4 The Biden Fed's were busy tracking, MAGA supporters and 400+ Million firearms. |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2025-03-28 09:10 |
| #3 I think we can find some. Start up those lawyer ads on TV and radio for a class action against Mayorkas for abandonment and exposure to sex trafficking. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2025-03-28 08:52 |
| #2 Lost them and made no effort to find them. An inconvenience at best and a commodity at worst. In the end Mayorkas is accountable for his plan to facilitate the invasion. Joe was incapable of understanding or ordering what was perpetrated. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2025-03-28 05:06 |
| #1 Oh, are we still pretending this was just incompetence and not the world's largest child trafficking operation? Looks like it. |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2025-03-28 03:48 |