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Between 2021 and 2024, 448,000 children crossed the border alone and were placed into the care of the U.S. government.
Here is what happened to them.
HHS placed children with sponsors. Those sponsors were often not their parents. In fact, only 37% of children ended up with a parent. The rest went to relatives, distant relatives, or unrelated adults.
The vetting process consisted of a phone call. No in-person meeting required. Background checks were skipped for 11,488 children. Home studies were not conducted for 79,143 children under the age of 12.
Addresses collected for sponsors were wrong 80% of the time, according to DHS law enforcement.
65,000 calls to a federal hotline reporting concerns about children went unanswered under Biden. When the Trump administration began reviewing them, they found children calling to report that grown men were coming into their rooms at night and touching them. Nothing had been done.
291,000 children were never given a court date. 32,000 who were given court dates never showed up. Over 31,000 had blank or undeliverable addresses on file.
HHS knowingly sent two children to a household with confirmed MS-13 gang connections. A staff member flagged it. HHS overruled her and transferred the children anyway. When she spoke up, her credentials were revoked and she was walked off the job site.
In one case, more than 50 children were sent to the same address.
A 15-year-old girl was smuggled from Ecuador by an adult male who had been in a relationship with her since she was 13. She arrived pregnant. His mother sponsored her. They lived together in Harlem.
In New Jersey, three minors ages 15, 16, and 17 were found living without their sponsor, in filthy conditions with mouse infestations, no food, and no school enrollment. A forensic interview revealed verbal, physical, and sexual abuse and labor exploitation.
In Tennessee, siblings were forced to work off smuggling debts for their sponsor.
In California, 14 children were rescued from marijuana grow sites where they had been working alongside adults convicted of rape, child molestation, and kidnapping.
A child found during a worksite enforcement operation in Alabama had never attended school in the two years since entering the United States.
The New York Times found migrant children working overnight shifts in slaughterhouses, on construction sites, and in factories making products for brands like Cheetos, Lucky Charms, Fruit of the Loom, and General Mills. A 16-year-old boy from Guatemala was killed at a slaughterhouse.
HHS whistleblower Tara Rodas: "I thought I was going to help place children in loving homes. Instead, I discovered that children are being trafficked through a sophisticated network. We have delivered these children to criminals, traffickers, and members of transnational criminal organizations who are using the program as a white glove delivery service of children."
Her supervisor told her: "You need to understand, at HHS we only get sued if we keep kids in care too long. We don't get sued by traffickers."
27 children located during welfare checks were found dead. By murder, suicide, or drug overdose.
This is not a political argument. These are government records, DHS press releases, Senate testimony, OIG reports, and whistleblower disclosures.
448,000 children entered the system. The system failed them.
