According to a shocking new report, the Biden-Harris administration has effectively lost track of more than 320,000 unaccompanied migrant children (UACs). Many of them have likely fallen victim to brutal human trafficking rings that have flourished under Democrats’ open borders agenda.
The figures were released as part of a 14-page report from the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the agency at the forefront of the border crisis. In total, the report finds, 32,000 UACs were released into the US with hearing dates but then failed to show in court, while 291,000 were never even given a date to appear in immigration court.
UACs who cross the border and are apprehended by border agents are then turned over to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which is supposed to connect them with a sponsor, usually a family member already in the country. But as HHS whistleblowers have alleged, in reality children are often handed over to “traffickers, members of transnational criminal organizations, bad actors, bad, bad, bad people.”
Moreover, the report found that just one of the eight Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) offices that they audited had even “attempted to locate” the missing children.
One shudders to imagine what happens to children—some as young as five years old—who are left without legal protections or oversight. A New York Times exposé published last February reveals in horrifying detail the conditions many of these children are subject to. Many are forced to work long hours in dangerous jobs, violating child labor laws. The Times spoke to 13-year-olds in Virginia who spent their days working in hotels washing sheets and towels instead of going to school, and 12-year-olds working 12-hour days as roofers in Florida and Tennessee.
Other UACs are being handed over by the Biden-Harris administration directly to sex traffickers. According to some estimates, as many as 60 percent of UACs who cross the border end up ensnared in sex trafficking or prostitution. As of 2022, human trafficking at the border had become a billion-dollar industry.
Along with openly encouraging migrants to flood to the border, the Biden-Harris administration’s decision to stop issuing Notices to Appear (NTA) to UACs has directly exacerbated the current crisis.
An NTA is a formal document that serves as both a court summons and a tracking mechanism for illegal aliens that arrive with an asylum claim. The OIG report states it plainly: “by not issuing NTAs to all UCs, [unaccompanied children] ICE limits its chances of having contact with UCs when they are released from HHS’ custody, which reduces opportunities to verify their safety.” It goes on to say that “without an ability to monitor the location and status of UCs, ICE has no assurance UCs are safe from trafficking, exploitation or forced labor.”
In May 2023, the Biden-Harris administration also moved to stop DNA testing of families at the border, which makes it more difficult to verify that children are related to the adults they are traveling with. As AMAC Newsline reported earlier this year, initial trial runs for DNA testing found that “nearly 30 percent of adults tested were crossing the border with someone else’s children, using doctored identifications.”
This means that even the 320,000 number reported by the OIG report likely grossly underestimates the scale of the crisis facing migrant children. The Biden-Harris administration has effectively hamstrung itself in identifying and stopping bad actors from trafficking children across the border to face unknown fates.
As a result of the Biden-Harris administration’s decisions, hundreds of thousands of children have no opportunity to seek relief and are left to fend for themselves as victims of the very administration that claims to champion human rights. This tragedy also underscores that the border crisis is not just a threat to the security of the American people—it’s also a life-or-death situation for these children who have already endured incredible hardships to reach the United States.
Despite these egregious failures, Harris has continued to tout the Biden-Harris border policy record as a success on the campaign trail. The 2024 Democrat Party platform furthermore claims that, under Biden and Harris, border crossers were treated “humanely and with dignity.”
While the platform contains a vague promise to “punish human smugglers and traffickers,” it unsurprisingly does not mention who exactly is responsible for those smugglers and traffickers making record profits – namely, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Nor does it make any commitments to restore the policies of the Trump administration, like DNA testing at the border, to solve the crisis that the current administration has created.
While Democrats have portrayed themselves as “compassionate” toward migrants and Republicans as “inhumane,” the result of liberal policies is precisely the opposite. For those truly concerned about the safety and security of migrant children, they should hope – and vote – to keep Kamala Harris out of the Oval Office.
Kristen Ziccarelli is a graduate of Christopher Newport University and the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.
Oh, now I get it.. when Kamala talks about “opportunity zones” she means 320,000 underaged prostitutes on the streets and 320,000 more opportunities to keep the pedophile vote “blue”.
This is a valuable article that every US citizen should read.
It clearly shows that, in the view our very own Democracy-hating “Democrats”, that the human rights, safety, and happiness of all of the child victims of human traffickers don’t matter. What REALLY matters to our “Democrats”, are the rights and happiness of… THEMSELVES, as they have cast their votes in our halls of congress, knowingly, for years now, to perpetuate all of the horrible crimes being committed against innocent children at our border that they purposely broke… for the sake of more votes for themselves.
It’s truly astonishing to watch these behaviors on the part of our “Democrat” leadership.
These people are beyond unscrupulous. The English language lacks a descriptive word for what these people do to innocent children.
The demoncrats just don’t care about humanity. Their only goal is complete and endless control and power.
Praise for Kristen Ziccarelli for this important information . In the first sentence the number of unaccompanied children that this current administration has lost track of at the border is 320,,000 according to the report from the Office of the Inspector General. That is something to think about – using common sense and a respect for truth. That number of children being lost track of points to something far different than a series of mistakes – how about incompetency on the part of those whose duty it is to keep track of unaccompanied children crossing the border . This United States of America does not need incompetent government employees in such an important position . What level of lack of leadership is involved to enable activity that puts children in danger from the despicable,criminals that are involved in human trafficking ? This situation. is unacceptable to those of us who value the principles of Faith, Family and Freedom. That matter of DNA testing being stopped is further reason. to doubt the motives of those who are supposed to be defending people , not putting them at risk. This is a moral issue of high magnitude and it should be given the proper amount of attention that will correct this injustice as quickly as humanly possible.
Imagine and not even a whisper from those who make their living from beating as over the head non stop over the sins of slavery .Too preoccupied with that which happened already to see what under their noses right now I thought UN had something called Human rights commission. Haha Where are all the International women advocates haha. Majority of those children I would say are non white and not a word of concern from all the bleeding hearts .Hilary and Michelle could not stop blathering about their love for children. First class hypocrisy.
Where in the heck is the media on this? Absolutely SHAMEFUL. And they gave Trump a hard time about separated minors.
Zero compassion day 1
where is the compassion in handing children off to human traffickers?
Jez’e-bel. 1 Kings.16:31; 21:6. Harris makes that evil queen look like Mother Therasa.But the “power behind the throne” is Satan’s man BH Obama.make no mistake that is who is and always has been the one plotting the demise of this great country and the simpleton who vote Democrat have not got the slightest clue.
Allowing (causing) harm to come to children is a most egregious crime one can commit in my opinion. A heavy weight tried to the perps necks and cast into the sea would be too lenient.
It’s not 320,000 either.
You people all of a sudden LOVE illegal immigrants!
How many children and adults have been abducted/kidnapped for sex slaves among other horrible things because of Dictator Beijing biden and Communist harris Open Borders? The true numbers are staggering and continue to increase.
The criminals Invasion and their Illegal Alien Terrorist Invasion continues INVADING our country and will be far worse under Communist harris because she supports it. That’s one of her policies. How SAFE do you think YOU and YOUR FAMILIES will be under Communist harris and democrats?
This is where the people get the real truth so that they can make up there own minds instead of reading lies and false truths
Wish everybody could read this post.
The Bible states that anyone who harms a little one will have a mill stone tied around their neck and will be cast into the Lake of Fire or something like this. This is pure evil; the cabal cares nothing of humanity…they call us “useless eaters” you know this? They want us all gone. Kamila deVila slipped up and mentioned the de-population plan in one of her public address speeches not too long ago. So there you have it, their plan for us.
Obviously the Current Regime profits by this influx of unaccompanied minors and participates in their exploitation. It is the principle of: “Follow the Money”, and is the basis for their behavior.