{"id":2613401,"date":"2026-06-11T12:19:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T16:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dhs-doj-hhs-locate-146000-unaccompanied-children-lost-under-biden\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T12:19:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T16:19:00","slug":"dhs-doj-hhs-locate-146000-unaccompanied-children-lost-under-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dhs-doj-hhs-locate-146000-unaccompanied-children-lost-under-biden\/","title":{"rendered":"DHS, DOJ, HHS locate 146,000 unaccompanied children lost under Biden"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdhs-doj-hhs-locate-146000-unaccompanied-children-lost-under-biden%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2613401&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Trump administration has tracked down 146,000 unaccompanied migrant children who came over the U.S.-Mexico border during the Biden administration and were lost after the government released them to unvetted sponsors, according to senior officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Acting Attorney General <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/todd-blanche\">Todd Blanche<\/a> and Homeland Security Secretary <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/markwayne-mullin\">Markwayne Mullin<\/a> announced on Thursday a massive increase in the number of children the government had been able to locate since last summer, when just <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3812527\/trump-dhs-locates-22000-missing-migrant-children-lost-under-biden\/\">22,000<\/a> had been found.<\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/4604321\/police-belfast-protests-attempted-beheading-immigration-northern-ireland\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Police crack down on Belfast protests after attempted beheading: \u2018Racist thuggery\u2019<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/investigations\/4601249\/border-patrol-arrests-in-florida-quietly-surge\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Border Patrol arrests in Florida quietly surge<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/immigration\/4602810\/ice-delaney-hall-detention-facility-arrests-30-some-from-colorado-washington\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>ICE Delaney Hall detention facility arrests top 30, including from Colorado, Washington<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe found 146,000 kids so far. 146,000 kids. We still have nearly 300,000 missing,\u201d Mullin said during a press conference at the Justice Department\u2019s Washington headquarters Thursday morning. \u201cWhen we start digging into these cases, and you start hearing the absolute horrific things that took place underneath the Biden administration, either true neglect at best and criminal at worst, to allow 450,000 kids to go missing throughout this country.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap\" style=\"min-height:5px;\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" style=\"display:none;\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-15\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under the Biden administration, more than 10 million foreigners were apprehended attempting to enter the United States illegally from Mexico, including more than half a million children who arrived without a parent or guardian. Those children were released into the U.S., and the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Refugee Resettlement was responsible for placing each child with a vetted sponsor through court proceedings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former President Joe Biden lost track of 88,000 children, according to a 2023\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/restoring-america\/fairness-justice\/becerra-hhs-responsibility-unaccompanied-migrant-children-forced-labor\">report<\/a>. A February 2024\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/immigration\/3118253\/hhs-lost-migrant-children-house-gop\/\">audit<\/a>\u00a0by the HHS Office of Inspector General found that the agency failed to conduct timely well-being follow-up calls for 22% of children placed with sponsors, 16% of case files lacked proof that sponsors underwent safety checks, and 19% of children were released to adults before the FBI fingerprint and state child abuse registries shared results with the government about the sponsors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Trump administration officials said on Thursday that they were searching for 300,000 unaccompanied children who, a 2024 DHS Office of Inspector General report found, had been let into the country with sponsors that were not vetted, as they should have been.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap\" style=\"min-height:5px;\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" style=\"display:none;\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-16\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-2\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Angie Salazar, acting director for HHS ORR, said the Trump administration reviewed data provided to the government from child sponsors and found 81,000 addresses were used more than once.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m not indicting, indicting the past leadership right here on this podium, but you also cannot ignore what was an incredible dereliction of duty,\u201d Blanche said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mullin added that the government was investigating reports \u201cto\u00a0where some of these kids claim that they\u2019re raped six to 700 times.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap\" style=\"min-height:5px;\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" style=\"display:none;\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-17\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-3\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Blanche and Mullin announced indictments against three illegal immigrant adults from Guatemala accused of trafficking more than a dozen children into the U.S. during the Biden administration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe criminals calling themselves sponsors trafficked these children to the border, usually committing fraud to do so, and oftentimes the children were abused, assaulted, and certainly exploited,\u201d Blanche said. \u201cIn some cases, individuals would sponsor multiple children, which required them to lie to government personnel and on government forms, claiming they were close relatives, when in fact they were not. They would use fake or stolen identities and make other false claims during the application process in order to obtain custody of the children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Officials did not provide a breakdown for how the government has handled the 146,000 children who have been located, as far as whether they were rescued, found to be living with a family member, or could face deportation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Salazar said child victims of trafficking are eligible to apply for certain visas that <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/congress\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"31\">Congress<\/a> created specifically for victims of human smuggling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/investigations\/4601249\/border-patrol-arrests-in-florida-quietly-surge\/\">BORDER PATROL ARRESTS IN FLORIDA QUIETLY SURGE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since early 2025, the Trump administration has required valid identity documents from sponsors, fingerprint background checks, and DNA testing when a sponsor claims a familial relationship. ORR conducts in-person visits of homes, addresses, and sponsors before releasing a child, as well as identifies sponsors who attempt to take custody of more than one child.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The number of children coming over the southern border has dramatically declined from upwards of 14,000 per month to less than 1,000 per month since President Donald Trump took office in January 2025, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbp.gov\/newsroom\/stats\/cbp-enforcement-statistics\/title-8-and-title-42-statistics\">data<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration has tracked down 146,000 unaccompanied migrant children who came over the U.S.-Mexico border during the Biden administration and were lost after the government released them to unvetted sponsors, according to senior officials. 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