EPIC SCANDAL: Biden-Harris administration loses track of 320,000 migrant children — with unknown numbers at risk of trafficking and forced labor

The Biden-Harris administration has lost track of more than 320,000 migrant children who entered the United States without their parents, according to a disturbing new report.

An unknown number of these children, who were transferred to “qualified sponsors” in the U.S., are now at risk of human trafficking, forced labor and other forms of exploitation, according to a report released Monday by the Homeland Security inspector general.

As of May 2024, approximately 291,000 unaccompanied migrant children who arrived in the U.S. have been released without a date set for their appearance in immigration court, leaving their whereabouts untraceable.

In addition, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials released another 32,000 children into the U.S. who were assigned court dates but did not show up, according to the 14-page report, which covers the period from October 2018 through September 2023.

A federal whistleblower has raised concerns that many of these vulnerable children may already have fallen into the hands of criminals and human traffickers.

Tara Rodas, who was hired in 2021 as a federal employee to help the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) deal with the influx of migrant children, believed she was doing a noble job. However, she told The NY Post she was shocked to discover she was actually handing these children over to “human traffickers, members of transnational criminal organizations, bad actors, bad, bad, bad people.”

When children cross the border illegally and are apprehended by border agents, they are turned over to HHS, which is responsible for connecting them with a sponsor in the U.S.

The sponsor does not have to be a family member, and they do not have to speak to HHS officials in person during the screening process. The screening is typically conducted over the phone, Rodas explained.

“When Biden was just starting his term, they took all the screening out of the process,” Rodas said.

Rodas informed a parliamentary committee last month about a case she had come across, involving a 16-year-old migrant girl who claimed to be her older brother’s sponsor.

“He touched her inappropriately. It was clear her sponsor was not her brother,” Rodas said, adding that the girl “looked drugged” and like “she was for sale” based on her sponsor’s social media posts.

In some cases, non-family sponsors have been found to be hosting multiple children released by HHS, which Rodas identified as a “red flag.”

Hundreds of such cases were reported in 2023. For example, NBC News reported that 344 unaccompanied migrant children released by the Biden administration were living with non-relatives who were harboring at least three migrant children.

Dr. Jason Piccolo, a retired federal agent who in 2015 exposed the government’s practice of releasing unaccompanied children to potential criminals, described the latest findings on the missing children as “deeply disturbing.”

Media reports indicate that some of these children, sent to the US by the federal government, are working in exploitative conditions in slaughterhouses and factories.

“A standard procedure must be immediately put in place to record the status and whereabouts of each individual unaccompanied migrant child with all relevant authorities,” Piccolo urged.

“One child lost to trafficking is one too many. This systemic failure demands immediate attention and reform to ensure the safety of all children in our care,” Piccolo added.

Rodas also stressed that the children themselves are not adequately “screened” and she has seen cases where adults falsely claimed to be minors in order to go through the process.

In a period of less than six months, Rodas observed numerous such cases.

“It is fraud on the part of the adult posing as the unaccompanied child, but it is also fraud on the part of the sponsor who is trying to sponsor them. This is very serious.”

According to the government watchdog’s report, only one in eight ICE offices audited made any effort to locate missing migrant children.

“Nobody at DHS is really looking at it,” Rodas said.

There have also been tragic cases of migrant crime in the US, linked to unaccompanied migrant children being turned over to sponsors by the federal government.

One such case involved a member of the MS-13 gang who brutally raped and murdered Kayla Hamilton, a young autistic woman in Maryland, in July 2022.

Her mother, Tammy Nobles, has accused HHS of “operational negligence” that “further sealed my daughter’s fate.”

At the border, federal authorities failed to check the alleged killer for gang tattoos and failed to contact officials in his home country of El Salvador, Nobles testified before Congress in January.

“Had they done so, Salvadoran government officials would have confirmed that the attacker was a known member of the MS-13 gang with a criminal past,” she testified.

HHS officials later “neglected and recklessly failed to verify the attacker’s legitimate family member or sponsor before allowing him to enter U.S. soil,” Nobles said, adding that HHS “allowed the MS-13 gang member, as a minor, to rent a room in a mobile home park from another individual who was also an illegal immigrant.”

{Matzav.com}