ICE Lost Track of 320,000 Illegal Alien Kids Between 2019-2023
Unacceptable. The data is from fiscal years 2019-2023.
Sorry I forgot to write about this yesterday.
The Office of the Inspector General (OIC) of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) found that ICE lost track of 320,000 children.
The data is between 2019-2023 so it happened under Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
“As of May 2024, ICE had not served NTAs [notice to appear] on more than 291,000 UCs [unaccompanied migrant children] who therefore do not yet have an immigration court date,” according to the report.
This is in addition to the 32,000 UCs who did not appear in court from fiscal years 2019 to 2023.
That is 320,000 children since 2019.
These children are “at higher risk for trafficking, exploitation, or forced labor.” This is awful (emphasis mine):
Additionally, even though HHS is responsible for the care and custody of UCs, ICE did not always inform HHS’ Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) when UCs failed to appear in immigration court after release from HHS’ custody. ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers at only one of the eight field offices we visited stated they attempted to locate the UCs. ICE also did not serve a Notice to Appear (NTA) on all UCs, after release from HHS custody, who warranted placement in removal proceedings under 8 U.S. Code Section 1229(a). As of May 2024, ICE had not served NTAs on more than 291,000 UCs who therefore do not yet have an immigration court date.
These issues occurred, in part, because ICE does not have an automated process for sharing information internally between the Office of the Principal Legal Advisor (OPLA) and ERO, and externally with stakeholders, such as HHS and the Department of Justice (DOJ), regarding UCs who do not appear in immigration court. Additionally, ICE ERO has not developed a formal policy or process to follow up on UCs who did not appear in court, has limited oversight for monitoring UCs, and faced resource limitations.
ICE must take immediate action to ensure the safety of UCs residing in the United States. Based on our audit work and according to ICE officials, UCs who do not appear for court are considered at higher risk for trafficking, exploitation, or forced labor. Although we identified more than 32,000 UCs who did not appear for their immigration court dates, that number may have been much larger had ICE issued NTAs to the more than 291,000 UCs who were not placed into removal proceedings. 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.
ICE transferred 448,820 UCs to HHS ORR between 2019 and 2023.
The OIC stressed that “ICE retains responsibility for managing their immigration cases.”
The OPLA has to manually update its case management system to show the UC’s absence.
However, ICE didn’t include all UCs who failed to appear in court.
In this day and age, how are these parts not connected? How are there no automatic uploads?
Our immigration system is strained, and people must do updates manually. Are you kidding me?
This part also got me:
Unlike adult migrants, UCs are not required to check in with ERO at any point between their apprehension and court appearance. In some cases, HHS personnel and ERO officers said they never see the UCs before or after HHS releases the UCs to sponsors. OPLA staff may be the only ICE officials UCs ever see in person, and this touchpoint only occurs if the UCs are served NTAs and appear for their hearings.
Um, you would think MINORS would be required to check-in more than adults because they are MINORS.
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Why am I not surprised?
How bad does the neck ache after turning one’s blind eye that far for so long every day?
Why am I not surprised?
You have been surprised so many times that your surprise mechanism has worn out and become unserviceable.
So, back-of-the-envelope math tells me that Joe Biden lost track of more than 3x the number of children each year than Trump did? That seems like…a lot. It also says that we don’t need to reduce illegal immigration. We need to STOP IT ENTIRELY because we’re self-evidently incapable of managing even the greatly reduced number that were slipping through when Trump was in office.
With that reference, that means probably a lot more than 3X on everyone else coming in under Biden than Trump, since all the videos these days are of adults.
Maybe Obama had it right — the only good way to keep track of unaccompanied kids is to put them in cages.
320,000 “kids” x 10 “parents”
yeah…good job lefty
you have gerrymandered the usa into 3rd world status welfare state tribalism
Everything going as planned; large numbers of children available for the exploiters.
Our “immigration” system appears to be functioning just enough to deny entry and citizenship to white Europeans, who must pay thousands and wait years. It does, however, afford nice government jobs to many people.
Do you think no one within those offices has not suggested getting IT in there to build some programs to automatically update other offices?
Of course they did… and someone said NO. Someone said no.
actually they did not lose track of the children
b/c lefty knows which pred house of sanctuaries they went to
I’m not at all surprised. The government has become the northern branch of the cartel human trafficking ring.
This means that there are potentially 320,000 illegal aliens kids who can become anchor babies by claiming to be undocumented citizens.
Oregon Supreme Court rules undocumented women’s word is enough to get birth certificate for son, whom she claims was born in US more than a year earlier at a camp—somewhere someplace somehow—who cares?
Just search “ turpin children california” to see how once the thirteen children were “rescued” by the California foster care system some of the Turpin children were placed in foster homes that were worse then their parental home they came from.
What kind of parents would send unaccompanied kids abroad to survive on their own? Jor-El is the only example that comes to mind, and his kid was facing certain death.. Even Jochebed couldn’t stay away from Moses for very long after abandoning him downriver.
You would think that the “guardians” would be the ones that ICE is contacting for everything. ICE doesn’t have the names of the guardians? ICE didn’t make the “guardians” present their own information and evidence of legal status before giving them a bunch of children?? The illegal alien kids in California have probably all had sex change operations already and are no longer in possession of their natural genitalia, but are running around with plastic parts, instead.
I’m sure the Democrats will “find” them when it’s time to declare that all “Dreamers” are automatically U.S. citizens.
At least make a database of the persons to whom the children were released so that they ain’t still sending them more children to hide and exploit.
“In this day and age, how are these parts not connected? How are there no automatic uploads?”
When disconnects like this happens, it’s deliberate.
Long ago, we officially questioned why Massachusetts gun permits had to be periodically renewed, along with all the BS fingerprinting, fees, and interviews. They had no photos, so that rationale was out. The lame excuse that came back was, “well, you might have been convicted of a crime in the meanwhile.” What, convictions didn’t result in automatic notifications to the convict’s local police chief (the issuing authority)? Um, nope. Because they wanted to force you to drag your ass in front of their star chamber every four years. Funny how when it came to drivers’ licenses, they had the real-time revocation procedure locked up solid.
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