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his garage.

'How Joe Biden and Kamala Harris lost 300,000 migrant children'

'Sen. Lee: 'Utter incompetence to secure our southern border is
indistinguishable from federally subsidized human trafficking''

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'In 2014, Vice President Joe Biden was dispatched to Guatemala by
President Barack Obama to implore Latin American countries and their
citizens to stop smuggling unaccompanied children into the United
States.

"These smugglers routinely engage in physical and sexual abuse and
extortion of these innocent, young women and men, by and large," Biden
said in a speech in Guatemala City.

Three months into his own presidency, in March 2021, Biden sent his vice
president, Kamala Harris, to Guatemala to convey a similar message: "Do
not come."

Ten years on from Biden's address in Guatemala City, the U.S. Department
of Homeland Security's Office of Inspector General is out with a report
that the Biden-Harris administration has lost track of approximately
300,000 migrant children.

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From fiscal year 2019 through fiscal 2023, U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement transferred nearly 450,000 unaccompanied children to the
Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Refugee Resettlement.
(Fiscal 2019 began Oct. 1, 2018, and ended Sept. 30, 2019, when Donald
Trump was president; fiscal 2023 began Oct. 1, 2022, and ended Sept. 30,
2023, with Biden as president.)

While Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, remains responsible
for managing the child migrants' immigration cases through the system,
the Office of Refugee Resettlement is tasked with the children's care
and custody while their cases are litigated.

"However, ICE was not able to account for the location of all UCs
[unaccompanied children] who were released by HHS [Health and Human
Services] and did not appear as scheduled in immigration court," the
inspector general's report says.

In the same period of fiscal 2019 to 2023, more than 32,000 of the
unaccompanied children failed to appear in court after receiving a
Notice to Appear.

"ICE did not always inform HHS' Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR)
when UCs failed to appear in immigration court after release from HHS'
custody," the inspector general's report says. "ICE Enforcement and
Removal Operations (ERO) officers at only one of the eight field offices
we visited stated they attempted to locate the UCs."

But those 32,000 failures to appear in court amounted to just the tip of
the iceberg. The report also found that "as of May 2024, ICE had not
served NTAs [Notices to Appear] on more than 291,000" unaccompanied
children.

Although updated guidance attempted to manage the surge of illegal
immigrants, the inspector general's office in the Department of Homeland
Security says that, despite "site visits at four ICE locations," it
"observed no change in local procedures based on the guidance."

"At one location we visited, 34,823 (84%) of 41,638 UCs in the local
area had not been served NTAs to initiate immigration proceedings," the
report adds.

"Joe Biden and Kamala Harris's utter incompetence to secure our southern
border is indistinguishable from federally subsidized human
trafficking," Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, told The Daily Signal.

"Countless children are harmed by the broken system perpetuated and
celebrated by the Democratic Party," Lee said. "They simply do not care,
because their mission is to erode the sovereignty and voting power of
American citizens, no matter who gets hurt."

Rep. Eli Crane, R-Ariz., also had choice words for the Biden-Harris
administration following the inspector general's report.

"This report is a testament to the horrors of the Biden-Harris
administration's open-border policies," Crane, a member of the House
Homeland Security Committee, told The Daily Signal. "They've directly
fueled human trafficking, child exploitation, and the enrichment of
murderous cartels. There's nothing humane about admitting vulnerable
children into America only for them to end up with unvetted sponsors
that don't ensure their safety."

Crane faulted Biden, Harris, and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro
Mayorkas by name.

"Since taking office, this administration has gutted effective Trump-era
policies and transformed CBP into a concierge service for criminal
aliens," Crane said, referring to Customs and Border Protection. "Biden,
Harris, and Mayorkas have blood on their hands for intentionally
orchestrating an invasion that endangers both American citizens and
unaccompanied children."

The Homeland Security Act of 2021, the report notes, defines
unaccompanied children "as minors who have no lawful immigration status
in the United States, have not attained 18 years of age, and have no
parent or legal guardian in the country available to provide care and
physical custody."

These children are "at higher risk for trafficking, exploitation, or
forced labor" because of the Biden-Harris administration's failures in
enforcing immigration law, the inspector general's report says.

In February 2023, The New York Times published a report based on its
investigation into the lives of unaccompanied migrant children who
recently came to the United States. Human trafficking and sexual abuse
involves migrant children more often than one might think, and those
cases are more extreme than the more commonplace labor exploitation that
migrant children may undergo in the United States.

From 15-year-olds packaging cereal in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to
12-year-old construction workers and roofers in Florida and Texas, to
slaughterhouses in Delaware, Mississippi, and North Carolina, the Times
reported, "migrant children, who have been coming into the United States
without their parents in record numbers, are ending up in some of the
most punishing jobs in the country."

Some children made it as far west as Los Angeles, where they sew "Made
in America" tags on T-shirts. Others go even further, across the Pacific
Ocean to Hawaii, where they harvest coffee.

"This shadow workforce extends across industries in every state,
flouting child labor laws that have been in place for nearly a century,"
the Times reported. "Unaccompanied minors have had their legs torn off
in factories and their spines shattered on construction sites, but most
of these injuries go uncounted."

The pattern of exploitation sometimes turns deadly. In Brooklyn, a
14-year-old was struck and killed by a car while delivering food on his
bike. In Atlanta, a 16-year-old was crushed under a tractor while on the
job. In Alabama, a 15-year-old died after tumbling off a roof.

The chaos that defines America's immigration system is the result of
decades of liberal border policies paired with confused, convoluted
enforcement procedures.

Andrew Arthur, a resident fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies,
told The Daily Signal that although children long have been smuggled
into the United States, the problems in dealing with unaccompanied alien
children became much more difficult after the so-called Flores
Settlement in 1997.

The agreement put narrow parameters on how the old Immigration and
Naturalization Service—dissolved in 2003 as part of the launch of the
Department of Homeland Security—could process migrant children. Matters
got only more complicated when, during passage of the Homeland Security
Act of 2002 creating DHS, Democrats demanded that the new agency send
unaccompanied children directly to the HHS Office of Refugee
Resettlement, Arthur said.

"Don't ask me why they picked ORR," Arthur said of Democratic lawmakers
and the office in HHS. "I literally have no idea. They didn't detain
anybody before this point, didn't have any experience, and they've never
really been good at it."

Though America's immigration system had undergone radical changes,
Arthur told The Daily Signal, the country didn't begin to see major
increases in unaccompanied alien children crossing the border until 2008
and the passage of the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization
Act.

Section 235 of the legislation, passed by a Democrat-run Congress and
signed into law by President George W. Bush, a Republican, requires DHS
to send every unaccompanied alien child that it comes in contact with to
the HHS Office of Refugee Resettlement "within 72 hours," Arthur said.

"But it also does something else weird," Arthur said. "It separates out
UACs into two separate groups. The first, if they're from contiguous
countries, Canada and Mexico, DHS can send them back if they haven't
been trafficked and they don't have any persecution claims. But if
they're from any other country, then those kids have to be sent to HHS,
and HHS has to then place them with sponsors in the United States."