During a press conference Friday in Los Angeles, California, President Trump somberly highlighted a chilling reality: hundreds of thousands of migrant children are reportedly missing.
“We have, under this administration, 325,000 migrant children are missing,” he said.
He was likely referring to the 2024 U.S. Department of Homeland Security Office of the Inspector General’s report regarding migrant children and border management.
According to the August data, over 365,000 unaccompanied minors (UCs) were transferred to the HHS’ Office of Refugee Resettlement between fiscal years 2021 and 2023. Their report stated that as of May 2024, over 291,000 of those unaccompanied migrant children had not been served NTAs (notice to appear in immigration court) and had no court date.
From the report:
By not issuing NTAs to all UCs, 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 report further stated that more than 32,000 migrant children who did receive NTAs did not appear for their immigration court dates. The office also concluded that by broadly failing to issue NTAs to these children, this restricted Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s ability to contact these children and screen them for risks of trafficking, slavery, and so forth.
The ambiguous status of such children is a situation President Trump pointed out.
“In other words, take your biggest stadium and you could fill it up five or six times – those are all missing children,” he said.
President Trump continued, “Many of them are dead, many of them are sex slaves and slaves of a different nature.”
The president’s remarks were centered largely on hammering Kamala Harris’s soft-on-crime policies while she was a prosecutor and attorney General in California and her ongoing facilitation of the open border crisis in America.
He said the crisis had ushered in the “largest wave of sex trafficking and human trafficking in history.”
If you or someone you know is a victim of human trafficking, contact the National Human Trafficking Hotline at 1-888-373-7888.
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