DHS loses track of 32,000 migrant kids

HARK! · Aug 20, 2024

The Department of Homeland Security has lost track of 32,000 illegal immigrant children who failed to show up for their deportation hearings and rarely bothers to look for them, the department’s inspector general said Tuesday.

Nearly 300,000 other children still haven’t been given immigration court summonses, the inspector general said. That works out to two-thirds of the children U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has failed to serve.

They are what the government calls unaccompanied children, who show up at the border without parents and who are placed with sponsors in the U.S. while they wait to find out whether they can stay. The government often lets them fall through the cracks.

DHS loses track of 32,000 migrant kids

Homeland Security has lost track of 32,000 illegal immigrant children who failed to show up for their deportation hearings and rarely bothers to look for them, the department’s inspector general said Tuesday.

www.washingtontimes.com

Human trafficking?

No worries, Border Czar Harris is on the job.

Gene2memE · Aug 20, 2024

Link to IG report:

https://www.oig.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/assets/2024-08/OIG-24-46-Aug24.pdf

Cases looked at were between FY2019 and FY2023.

Key causes:

ICE does not have an automated process for sharing information internally between the Office of the Principal Legal Advisor and Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), and externally with stakeholders, such as HHS and the US DoJ, regarding unaccompanied migrant children (UCs) who do not appear in immigration court.

ICE ERO has limited oversight for monitoring UCs and has not developed a formal policy or process to follow up on UCs who did not appear in court.

ICE still lacks adequate staffing, which can limit officers’ time and ability to check the location or immigration case status of migrants. Resource constraints also impact ERO’s ability to issue Notices To Appear to all UCs after their release from HHS’ custody.

wing2000 · Aug 20, 2024

Gene2memE said:
ICE still lacks adequate staffing, which can limit officers’ time and ability to check the location or immigration case status of migrants. Resource constraints also impact ERO’s ability to issue Notices To Appear to all UCs after their release from HHS’ custody.

....and who killed the last Senate bill that would have provided ICE more resources? Donald J Trump.

Ana the Ist · Aug 21, 2024

HARK! said:
The Department of Homeland Security has lost track of 32,000 illegal immigrant children who failed to show up for their deportation hearings and rarely bothers to look for them, the department’s inspector general said Tuesday.

Nearly 300,000 other children still haven’t been given immigration court summonses, the inspector general said. That works out to two-thirds of the children U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has failed to serve.

They are what the government calls unaccompanied children, who show up at the border without parents and who are placed with sponsors in the U.S. while they wait to find out whether they can stay. The government often lets them fall through the cracks.

DHS loses track of 32,000 migrant kids

Homeland Security has lost track of 32,000 illegal immigrant children who failed to show up for their deportation hearings and rarely bothers to look for them, the department’s inspector general said Tuesday.

www.washingtontimes.com

Human trafficking?

No worries, Border Czar Harris is on the job.

Sponsor is a very nice word for human trafficker. There was an HHS whistleblower who explained in great detail how obvious it was these children were being trafficked. Many older ones are used for illegal labor....and we can only guess how a profit is made off the very young ones.

The administration is well aware of the fact that this is happening. They simply don't want to change their stance because they demonized Trump for sending children back to their homes. Officially...this administration claims to have lost no children....because they never had any policy to keep track of them. Their sponsors are usually unvetted....and it doesn't matter if they are....a criminal record doesn't mean that the child won't be delivered to them.

Ana the Ist · Aug 21, 2024

wing2000 said:
....and who killed the last Senate bill that would have provided ICE more resources? Donald J Trump.

Trump didn't vote on the bill...and if you can cite any part of it that would fix this problem, I'll gladly admit that it was something that Republicans should have passed.

Ana the Ist · Aug 21, 2024

Gene2memE said:
Link to IG report:

https://www.oig.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/assets/2024-08/OIG-24-46-Aug24.pdf

Cases looked at were between FY2019 and FY2023.

Key causes:

ICE does not have an automated process for sharing information internally between the Office of the Principal Legal Advisor and Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), and externally with stakeholders, such as HHS and the US DoJ, regarding unaccompanied migrant children (UCs) who do not appear in immigration court.

ICE ERO has limited oversight for monitoring UCs and has not developed a formal policy or process to follow up on UCs who did not appear in court.

ICE still lacks adequate staffing, which can limit officers’ time and ability to check the location or immigration case status of migrants. Resource constraints also impact ERO’s ability to issue Notices To Appear to all UCs after their release from HHS’ custody.

The key causes are we let children in automatically. We create a market for trafficking children that has zero consequences. I'm sure you recall the pregnant 12yo Guatemalan girl being pimped out by her mother. I've no doubt she was payment.

Larniavc · Aug 21, 2024

HARK! said:
No worries, Border Czar Harris is on the job.

Yeah, she should have done a FAR better job to convince Mr Trump to not torpedo the bi partisan boarder senate bill.

Is she stupid or something?

wing2000 · Aug 21, 2024

Ana the Ist said:
Trump didn't vote on the bill...and if you can cite any part of it that would fix this problem, I'll gladly admit that it was something that Republicans should have passed.

I thought it was understood Senate Republicans caved to Trump's pressure.

With regards to the Sentate Bill, here is one provision that would have helped with the issue of minors not appearing in court:

Sec. 3131. Electronic notices to appear. [apparently, notices are still sent by the USPS....only]
Amends Sec. 239 of the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize the Secretary to provide service of a notice to appear in writing, by email, or by other electronic means if elected by the applicant.

Sec. 3132. Authority to prepare and issue notices to appear. Amends Sec. 239 of the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize mission support personnel within U.S. Customs and Border Protection or U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement who have received proper training to prepare a notice to appear for review and issuance by their supervisory immigration officer.

https://www.sinema.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/The-Border-Act-2024-Section-by-Section-1.pdf

HARK! · Aug 21, 2024

Ana the Ist said:
Sponsor is a very nice word for human trafficker.

Human trafficking is a very nice way of saying slavery. Most often it means sex slavery.

HARK! · Aug 21, 2024

wing2000 said:
....and who killed the last Senate bill that would have provided ICE more resources? Donald J Trump.

I didn't realize that Trump was a Senator; but unlike Border Czar Harris, Trump had the border under control.

HARK! · Aug 21, 2024

wing2000 said:
With regards to the Sentate Bill, here is one provision that would have helped with the issue of minors not appearing in court:

How would that help?

When fugitives flee their last known residence; do you think that they carry their cell phones, so that they can be tracked?

Wow! They let law breakers into the country and they don't comply with the law. What a surprise!

Ana the Ist · Aug 21, 2024

wing2000 said:
I thought it was understood Senate Republicans caved to Trump's pressure.

It's certainly the story you're supposed to believe.

wing2000 said:
With regards to the Sentate Bill, here is one provision that would have helped with the issue of minors not appearing in court:

I'm sorry....how?

It's not as if the children are sent to their human traffickers without addresses or phone numbers to reach them at. They can't be reached because those are often fake....

wing2000 said:
Sec. 3131. Electronic notices to appear. [apparently, notices are still sent by the USPS....only]
Amends Sec. 239 of the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize the Secretary to provide service of a notice to appear in writing, by email, or by other electronic means if elected by the applicant.

But in your mind, email addresses, which are something very many of them have never had before....those will be real ways to contact them.

Is that what you're saying here?

wing2000 said:
Sec. 3132. Authority to prepare and issue notices to appear. Amends Sec. 239 of the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize mission support personnel within U.S. Customs and Border Protection or U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement who have received proper training to prepare a notice to appear for review and issuance by their supervisory immigration officer.

https://www.sinema.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/The-Border-Act-2024-Section-by-Section-1.pdf

I'm not sure how this is going to affect the issue at all. This allows some non-immigration officials to help out in issuing forms to and processing illegals entering the nation. The children keep lying to officials because they're forced to....then they get sent to their traffickers.

How does adding to the pool of people who they lie to improve anything?

This is why the whole border bill was a joke. It doesn't fix the problem.

Ana the Ist · Aug 21, 2024

HARK! said:
I didn't realize that Trump was a Senator; but unlike Border Czar Harris, Trump had the border under control.

It's amazing right? This administration went from...

1. The border is secure-lie.
2. Stop entering illegally-maybe if we ask them to stop, they'll stop.
3. The border is a significant problem-truth.
4. The border is Trump's fault- lie.

Ana the Ist · Aug 21, 2024

HARK! said:
Human trafficking is a very nice way of saying slavery. Most often it means sex slavery.

Yeah it's not like a 9yo will be working at a meat packing plant.

Ana the Ist · Aug 21, 2024

Larniavc said:
Yeah, she should have done a FAR better job to convince Mr Trump to not torpedo the bi partisan boarder senate bill.

Is she stupid or something?

Wild. Amazing that you both think the bill would have worked and think it's Trump's fault it failed.

Illegal entries have dropped....because Biden shut down asylum. He could have done this at any time...never needed the Republicans.

wing2000 · Aug 21, 2024

Ana the Ist said:
Wild. Amazing that you both think the bill would have worked and think it's Trump's fault it failed.

Illegal entries have dropped....because Biden shut down asylum. He could have done this at any time...never needed the Republicans.

....until a court rules otherwise.
It's not a permenant solution.
Congress needs to pass legislation.

wing2000 · Aug 21, 2024

HARK! said:
I didn't realize that Trump was a Senator; but unlike Border Czar Harris, Trump had the border under control.

Trump killed the bill.

And it's interesting how you think the VP has power to issue executive orders or magically add resources to ICE.

Ana the Ist · Aug 21, 2024

wing2000 said:
....until a court rules otherwise.

Sure.

wing2000 said:
It's not a permenant solution.

Right...unless the courts don't rule against it.

wing2000 said:
Congress needs to pass legislation.

I agree. I simply think it should be legislation that works. I saw nothing proposed that would enforce existing laws more easily or prevent the rampant asylum fraud happening every day.

wing2000 · Aug 21, 2024

From another source with more detail:

"Between 2019 and 2023, more than 32,000 unaccompanied minors failed to show up for their immigration court hearings, and ICE was “not able to account” for all of their locations, according to a report from the ICE inspector general’s office.

During that period, more than 448,000 unaccompanied children overall immigrated to the US and were transferred from ICE custody to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the agency responsible for placing them with a sponsor or in foster care.

Once they were handed off to HHS for settlement, ICE couldn’t determine all of these children’s locations, and more than 291,000 of the kids were not placed into removal proceedings because ICE had never served them notices to appear or scheduled a court date for them.

"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," Inspector General Joseph Cuffari wrote in the report.

Department of Homeland Security may have lost track of thousands of child migrants

‘ICE has no assurance [they] are safe,’ agency watchdog report finds

www.independent.co.uk

Ana the Ist · Aug 21, 2024

wing2000 said:
Trump killed the bill.

Sure.

wing2000 said:
And it's interesting how you think the VP has power to issue executive orders or magically add resources to ICE.

He placed her in charge of the persistent myth of "fixing the nations the illegals are fleeing". It hasn't worked....ever....and of course, Harris didn't make it work either.

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