Possibly under the first Trump term:
The inability to confirm the whereabouts of migrant children after they move from federal shelters raises concerns that they could be exploited by human traffickers.
www.nytimes.com
The Trump administration is unable to account for the whereabouts of nearly 1,500 migrant children who illegally entered the United States alone this year and were placed with sponsors after leaving federal shelters, according to congressional findings released on Tuesday.
The revelation echoes an admission in April by the Department of Health and Human Services that the government
had similarly lost track of an additional 1,475 migrant children it had moved out of shelters last year.
In findings that lawmakers described as troubling, Senate investigators said the department could not determine with certainty the whereabouts of 1,488 out of 11,254 children the agency had placed with sponsors in 2018, based on follow-up calls from April 1 to June 30.
The inability to track the whereabouts of migrant children after they have been released to sponsors has raised concerns that they could end up with human traffickers or be used as laborers by people posing as relatives.
In regards to the current accusation, this is from Jeff Nesbit:
Jeff Nesbit was assistant secretary for public affairs at the Department of Health and Human Services during the Biden administration.
As if all of its anti-government actions over the past two weeks were not enough, the Trump administration is now targeting innocent children as part of its anti-migrant crusade.
To do so, the administration has tapped
a former immigration enforcement official to lead an agency in the Department of Health and Human Services — the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) — that Congress has charged with providing temporary custody and care, including support services, for unaccompanied migrant children.
The real goal of this effort is not to find 300,000 children who were never lost or missing in the first place. Rather, it appears to be to use custody and care data on these children to track any undocumented adults supporting them.
He goes on to list all the things they did do for migrant children but I am at the limit in how much I can quote.
Nothing from the VERY right biased Breitbart is going to be seen as factual by anyone who has not drunk the MAGA kool-aid.
From BBC:
Some border officials say they fear migrant children are being exploited after arriving in the US.
www.bbc.com
Are the children actually missing?
According to immigration experts and attorneys, the claims largely
stem from an August report from the Department of Homeland Security's inspector general's office, which found that 32,000 unaccompanied minors failed to show up for court dates at immigration courts from 2019-23.
The report noted that 291,000 migrant children received no court notices at all. It also called on the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) to "take immediate action to ensure the safety" of unaccompanied migrant children in the US.
Migrant children "who do not appear for court are considered at higher risk for trafficking, exploitation, or forced labor", the inspector general's office reported.
But Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, policy director at the American Immigration Council, a migrant advocacy group, told the BBC the figures are indicative of a bureaucratic "paperwork issue" rather than "anything nefarious".
So who was president in 2019 and 2020?
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