Rep. Clay Higgins on Unaccompanied Alien Children and Biden's Border Policies

Failures in Tracking Unaccompanied Children

• 📌 The House Oversight Committee is examining an Inspector General report detailing failures by DHS and HHS to track nearly 448,000 unaccompanied alien children who entered the U.S. illegally over four years.
• ⚠️ The Biden administration's border policies are blamed for creating an environment where these children were destined to be trafficked and exploited.
• 💔 The ramifications of past policies continue to impact hundreds of thousands of young lives, with children lost in a system meant to protect them.

Exploitation and Criminal Activity Concerns

• 🚨 The report indicates that while some vulnerable children may have been trafficked or subjected to forced labor, older teens have, in some cases, been convicted of crimes in their home countries and were gang members.
• 💔 Children were improperly processed and placed with sponsors, leading to potential trafficking and horror.

System Overwhelm and ICE Capacity

• 📈 The sheer volume of cases, exacerbated by open border policies, has overwhelmed the system.
• 🚫 ICE has over 7.5 million non-detained cases with just over 1,000 staff, making it literally impossible to personally interact with these minors.
• ⚖️ Nearly 300,000 children have unserved notices to appear for court dates, with 58,000 of them being 12 years old or younger.
• ❓ In many cases, the whereabouts of these children are unknown.

Oversight and Future Actions

• ✅ ICE under the Trump administration has accepted all recommendations from the IG's report.
• 🔍 The focus is on identifying, locating, and rescuing these children, ensuring they are properly identified, cared for, and protected.