Speaker Johnson Slams Biden Admin for ‘stunning’ IG Report on 300K Missing Migrant Kids: ‘Modern-day slavery operation’; The Biden Administration Has Lost Track of 290,000 Illegal Alien Kids, DHS Inspector General Finds

Speaker Johnson slams Biden admin for ‘stunning’ IG report on 300K missing migrant kids: ‘Modern-day slavery operation’

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) slammed the Biden administration after a “stunning” inspector general’s report released Tuesday found that nearly 300,000 migrant children are presumed to be missing in the US.

“This administration’s failure to secure our border is facilitating what is the equivalent of a modern-day slavery operation,” Johnson told reporters on a press call Tuesday evening.

“The southern border is a national security disaster and a humanitarian catastrophe and Kamala Harris cannot be trusted to fix it,” he thundered.

“And this is one of the biggest scandals in American history; it’s one of the most tragic; and we have to hold emergency hearings.”

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) “as of May 2024” failed to provide court dates to 291,000 unaccompanied children that had been released to domestic sponsors, according to the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General.

Another 32,000 were released by ICE with notices to appear for immigration removal proceedings — but never showed up for their court dates, the 14-page report reveals.

Just one of the eight ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations offices audited had even “attempted to locate” the missing immigrant kids — and the rate of serving them with notices to appear in immigration court at one location stood at only 16%.

A total of 448,820 unaccompanied children were shuttled from ICE to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and then to sponsors nationwide between fiscal years 2019 and 2023.

HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra, amid a surge of illegal entries in 2022, pushed his staff to release the children to sponsors so quickly that he wanted the turnover to resemble an “assembly line,” according to the New York Times. —>READ MORE HERE

The Biden Administration Has Lost Track of 290,000 Illegal Alien Kids, DHS Inspector General Finds:

An insane new report reveals the Biden administration has lost nearly 300,000 children – count them, 300,000 – that crossed the U.S. border illegally, only to be sent to sponsors somewhere in the United States.

Well, we think we sent them to sponsors. We aren’t actually sure where they ended up. Could be with a family member. Could be a sweatshop.

Could be a sex trafficking ring. Who knows?

According to the Office of the Inspector General for the Department of Homeland Security, the number of kids the Biden administration has lost track of after ushering them across the border has ballooned from 88,000 in 2021 to an estimated 290,000 by the end of FY2023.

The OIG reported that “ICE transferred more than 448,000 [Unaccompanied Children] to HHS from fiscal years 2019 to 2023. However, ICE was not able to account for the location of all UCs who were released by HHS and did not appear as scheduled in immigration court.”

“As of May 2024, ICE had not served [Notices to Appear] on more than 291,000 UCs who therefore do not yet have an immigration court date,” the report continued, meaning there are nearly 300,000 illegal alien minors in the United States without documentation, but who haven’t even been ordered to appear in court to have their cases adjudicated, and whose whereabouts are unknown.

Because they aren’t giving illegal alien kids Notices to Appear before releasing them into the country, “ICE limits its chances of having contact with UCs when they are released from HHS’ custody, which reduces opportunities to verify their safety. Without an ability to monitor the location and status of UCs, ICE has no assurance UCs are safe from trafficking, exploitation, or forced labor,” the OIG bluntly stated. —>READ MORE HERE

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