Many of the unaccompanied migrant children who crossed the border and were lost under the Biden administration have been found in horrible conditions, dead, or exploited as labor or sex slaves. This comes after it was revealed that there were 65,000 reports concerning allegations about migrant child sponsors left in a backlog by the Biden administration.
The Trump administration has been able to recover 22,638 unaccompanied children. However, as police have conducted operations to find the children, 27 of the minors have been found dead by murder, suicide, or drug overdose. Over 400 of the so-called “sponsors” have also been arrested as officers have conducted the search for the unaccompanied migrant children.
“It’s important that we find these cases where children are being used for labor and sexually trafficked,” John Fabbricatore, an HHS Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) senior advisor, told Fox News. In March, a team was assembled to locate the tens of thousands of children that were allowed into the US under the Biden administration and then released to sponsors, many of them being unvetted and not related to the children.
Border Czar Tom Homan had been tasked with finding those thousands of children who were unaccounted for after they were released by the Biden administration to sponsors without notices to appear for a court date, and 32,000 failed to appear for immigration court dates. This allowed for exploitation of children in many cases, Fabbricatore said.
“We found children who have been raped,” he said. “We’re talking about debt bondage, where children are being made to work off debt, trafficking debt. We’re talking about children that were brought into situations and then treated like sexual slaves. You know, where children are in horrific environments, just environments that they should not be in, where the sponsor is a heroin dealer and that child winds up dying of a heroin overdose.” READ MORE
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