Rep. Lance Gooden Demands Answers From Mayorkas On ‘Lost’ Migrant Children By Biden-Harris Admin

Texas Republican Rep. Lance Gooden is demanding that Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas provide answers about the thousands of migrant children the government has lost contact with and who are at risk of sexual exploitation, forced labor or worse.

Federal immigration authorities have encountered nearly half a million unaccompanied alien children (UACs) at the U.S.-Mexico border since President Joe Biden took office, Godden said in Wednesday’s letter, which was obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. Since then, the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) has lost track of more than 85,000 UACs in the country, and hundreds of thousands of other migrant children are at risk of exploitation because the government can’t effectively track them. (RELATED: Top NYPD Chief Says City’s Asylum Policy Must Evaporate After Migrant Allegedly Raped Woman at Knife Point)

Gooden’s letter asks how exactly the relevant agencies collaborate in processing UACs and how they are tracked when they are released domestically.

“If the Biden administration intends to keep our nation’s borders open to potential human traffickers, cartels, and other criminals, then (the Department of Homeland Security), in coordination with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), is directly responsible for ensuring that unaccompanied children are not lost, trafficked, or abused,” Gooden wrote to Mayorkas on Wednesday. (…)

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