The Biden-Harris administration has lost track of tens of thousands of migrant kids — yet the media that made a huge stink about the issue in the Trump years doesn’t care.
Tuesday’s damning Homeland Security Inspector General report revealed that 32,000 migrant kids failed to show up for court dates between 2019 and 2023, and the number of kids in the wind could be much higher, since 291,000 never got a notice to appear in the first place.
That’s more than 300,000 kids the feds aren’t keeping track of — children who could very well be in danger: The IG report warned that unaccompanied children “who do not appear for court are considered at higher risk for trafficking, exploitation, or forced labor.”
And by failing to issue notices to appear, “ICE limits its chances of having contact with [unaccompanied children] when they are released from [Department of Health and Human Services’] custody, which reduces opportunities to verify their safety.”
To top it all off, “ICE did not always inform” HHS when migrant kids “failed to appear in immigration court after release from HHS’ custody.”
So not only do the feds not know where these kids are, the proper authorities sometimes don’t even know they’re missing — in part, the report says, because “ICE does not have an automated process for sharing information.”
ICE is overwhelmed with the sheer number of unaccompanied migrant kids who’ve flooded into the country — 113,000 in 2023 alone — since Biden threw the border open on Day 1 of his presidency.
Democrats and their press lapdogs are quiet about this crisis of lost kids; a far cry from the Trump years, when the media blared the news that HHS failed to confirm the whereabouts of about 1,500 kids over a three-month period in 2018.
Those weren’t failures to appear in court, but cases where HHS reached out to the children or their sponsors by phone or message and didn’t make.
In total, there were 54,000 of those cases over three years under Trump; there were 85,000 cases in just two years under Biden.
The left doesn’t want to admit the obvious: A weaker border means more unaccompanied migrant children, which means more kids slipping through the cracks of a strained system.
Border czar Kamala Harris hasn’t said word one about changing any of the Biden border policies, only claimed that she’s somehow “tough.”
So a vote for Harris is a vote for putting tens of thousands of already vulnerable kids in more danger.