Federal Team Searches for 20K+ Migrant Children Lost Under Biden Administration

Federal Team's Mission to Locate Unaccompanied Minors

• 🎯 A federal team, created in March, is working to find tens of thousands of unaccompanied migrant children who were lost in the system under the Biden administration.
• 🔍 The team, operating from a "war room" in Washington D.C. under HHS, is composed of volunteers from agencies like the FBI and Homeland Security Investigations.
• 📊 Their approach is entirely data-driven, focusing on analyzing records and addresses to track down the minors.

Troubling Discoveries and Sponsor Arrests

• ⚠️ The team has found children in deplorable conditions, some of whom have been victims of rape.
• ⛓️ More than 400 sponsors have been arrested, with cases involving debt bondage and children treated as sexual slaves.
• 💔 Tragically, 27 minors have been found dead, due to murder, suicide, accidents, or drug overdoses.

Lax Vetting Policies and Past Administration's Approach

• 📈 Between 2021 and 2024, over 470,000 unaccompanied children crossed the border, with many released to sponsors under lax vetting policies.
• 🧬 Under the Trump administration, sponsors were required to undergo DNA testing, fingerprinting, and prove their ability to care for the child.
• ❌ The Biden administration's intake of information was reportedly inaccurate, necessitating a deep investigation into the whereabouts of these children.