Report: Trump Administration Located Over 75,000 Missing Migrant Children
If the Trump administration was able to locate 25% of these children in 100 hours, how did the Biden administration fail to find them in four years?
Not quite sure how this one slipped under the radar.
Fox News host Harris Faulkner reported on Friday that the Trump administration has already located between 75,000 and 80,000 of the missing 300,000 migrant children believed to have been trafficked at the southern border.
This story has not been confirmed by administration officials. However, if true, it is a bombshell.
Faulkner told viewers that the second wave of Trump border czar Tom Homan’s mass deportation efforts will focus on finding the missing migrant children. She said:
That number has already started to come down from 300,000. So, they’ve found about 75,000 to 80,000 of those kids already. If they can get the list of these guys – four full days in office for Trump – if they can get the list of where some of those kids have been, and they’ve been identifying it since the election, … what in the world was Biden’s administration doing? What was Secretary of Homeland [Security] Mayorkas doing when he said to the committees on Capitol Hill ‘We don’t know where those kids are. I’ll look into it’?
No, dude, you obviously had a better way to find them and you didn’t do your job. I can’t believe they impeached him and didn’t remove him.
Perhaps former President Joe Biden should have added one more person to his preemptive pardon list.
BREAKING: Harris Faulkner from Fox News reportedly stated that the @realDonaldTrump administration has located between 75,000 and 80,000 of the over 300,000 missing migrant children. Confirmation from officials or more details to come. https://t.co/8RQ6BzhF7Q pic.twitter.com/SEi2l4mjoO
— ~☆~LindaEvans
(@Deja_Vu_4Me) January 25, 2025
If the Trump administration was able to locate 25% of these children in 100 hours, how did the Biden administration fail to find them in four years?
More relevant still, how did they lose track of 300,000 migrant children in the first place? According to The Wall Street Journal, Biden administration officials wanted to avoid the optics of “kids in cages” at the border. The Journal reported that the Department of Health and Human Services prioritized the rapid release of unaccompanied minors to sponsors without thorough vetting. That resulted in many children being placed right into the hands of traffickers.
Below is an excerpt from the report:
In 2021, when the new Biden administration was struggling to cope with a sudden influx of unaccompanied migrant children at the U.S.-Mexico border, the government repeatedly overrode the concerns of lower-level workers who warned about placing them in certain households, documents and interviews show.
“It does not appear safe for the minor to be released to a home environment that was not fully assessed,” a caseworker wrote about a child slated to live in a hostel-like home in Florida with at least three adults. A few days later, an official dismissed the recommendation to reject the proposed guardian, according to internal government memos.
The Trump administration introduced DNA testing at the border to verify familial relationships. During a three-day trial to assess whether DNA testing should become standard practice, agents discovered that nearly 30% of adults tested were attempting to cross the border with children who were not their own, using falsified identifications.
Deciding that ignorance was bliss, the Biden administration ended DNA testing at the border. This decision came as a gift to human traffickers and the numbers of missing migrant children escalated.
In the end, the most reasonable explanation for the large number of migrant children who remained unaccounted for at the end of the Biden administration is that they simply weren’t looking for them. After all, finding these children in vulnerable situations would only emphasize the dangers of their reckless open border policy.
Elizabeth writes commentary for The Washington Examiner. She is an academy fellow at The Heritage Foundation and a member of the Editorial Board at The Sixteenth Council, a London think tank. Please follow Elizabeth on X or LinkedIn.
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A good start….
Fry Mayorkas while you continue to look….
At a minimum take away his security clearances and All of his passports.
Q: “If the Trump administration was able to locate 25% of these children in 100 hours, how did the Biden administration fail to find them in four years?”
A: They didn’t look.
Q: Why didn’t they look?
A: Because it took a significant amount of time and effort to make cheat cards for Biden to read, to coordinate with reporters to ask questions Biden had answers to, to make sure that Joe didn’t didn’t lost or fall down, to coordinate bank transfers among family members, to keep Biden family affairs hidden from the public, to do in depth research so that every possible crime by family members could be pardoned. Not to mention cleaning up cocaine in the white house and administering first aid for dog bites.
Because they didn’t care to look.
I’m sure these lost children meant money in their pockets!
Because they were paid off by the cartels.
We’ll never know, but I’ve heard that allegation a lot lately.
Why would you say “we’ll never know”? Just because we may not be able to prosecute or convict a pardoned criminal doesn’t mean we can’t investigate the crime and find who did it. Right?
C’mon, man! The cartels pay great, better than any legitimate paycheck job. Whaddaya think, the bureaucrats are so dumb to turn down the extra income?
Getting a big payoff makes sense to me!
What savagery. Democrats view today as some kind of way-back machine to the days of trafficking in slaves. This isn’t 1821.
The d/prog can’t seem to.shake their historical desire to import folks to pick the crops.
As if any additional proof/evidence were required, to demonstrate the vile Dhimmi-crat apparatchiks’ intrinsic and immutable evil. The Dhimmi-crats’ decades-long, gleeful facilitation of open borders and illegal alien entry, and, the pervasive suffering that it causes (to American citizens, as well as to certain illegal aliens) goes beyond the apparatchiks’ standard incompetence and dereliction of duty. These reprobates are always more concerned about political optics, repercussions and “CYA” evasions/deflections/obfuscations, than they are about human lives and suffering.
Recall how the despicable, water-carrying media propagandists/shills/trained seals/lapdogs/stenographers ignored the scandal of alien “kids in cages,” which largely began under the wretched tenure of narcissist-incompetent-dunce, Obama, and dishonestly castigated #45 for the problem, even to the extent of using an Obama-era photo of kids in cages to accompany their propaganda screeds, and, dishonestly implying that the photo’s provenance dated from sometime during #45’s tenure.
I take issue with one part of your otherwise excellent post. Obama is not a dunce. He is a fool, which is much worse.
Fair enough, LOL.
I suspect finding the last 25% is gonna be much more difficult b/c those children were allowed by the Biden Admin to be placed into incredibly dire situations.
They better start checking graveyards for those poor kids.
bet folding money they aren’t in grave yards …. remember everything has to eat.
crabs and fish gotta eat
buzzards gotta eat
coyotes and feral dogs gotta eat
everything has to eat.
I’m sure they would be in unmarked graves.
I fear you may be right.
Gosh, it’s almost like the Democrats didn’t care and weren’t actually looking for them.
This story and many others like it about missing children always describe the issue as human trafficking, and I am glad in this instance these children were found and rescued. But I want to know what is really going on. The motive must be monetary. Who are the buyers, who are the sellers and who are the facilitators? Track them down and prosecute them to slow down and try to put an end to this destructive industry.
And how much money was paid to the Biden Crime Family and other elements of the Demomafia?
Who are the buyers? Two kinds, maybe three, the first being sex traffickers, and those kids are going all over the world to be fresh tender meat for pedos.
The second is “normal” human slavers, who are using these kids for factory laborers.
The third, the shadowiest and the scariest is that these kids are being farmed for spare parts, particularly in the far east.
You make an important point here: some of these children are no longer here. They went elsewhere after entering the USA.
However, I doubt any truly large number of them did so. It would have been much easier to traffic them from someplace like Mexico or “Columbia”. I am going to guess some large number of them became “adoptees” with some folks with a plan not to leave the USA, (“What? Deport me? But I have a family!”) Some might have been turned to sex activities. And any “factories” they are working in are already illegal, I’m guessing.
Amazing the difference it makes when you have competent people in charge.
Former Secretary of Homeland Security Mayorkas did not receive a pre-emptive pardon. Just sayin’…
Biden lost so many kids that Trump was able to find those 75,000 in a minute and 41 seconds, using a spy satellite set to wide-angle fisheye.
Hell is currently constructing a tenth circle just for Bidens.
Where were they found?
Someone somewhere needs to be working on which people benefited from these kids disappearing. (As well as who benefited from all the other disappearing illegal aliens and “refugees”.) Hunt them down.
Maybe they should talk to the We Fight Monsters folks about it. (wefightmonsters.org)
Thank you for a really great article and for posting my comment from X, which has totally gone viral with over 19 million views. Many of us are still waiting for confirmation from Gov’t officials for more details. I’m really surprised that MSM hasn’t said anything positive on all this, but then again im not at all surprised. Also, it seems Harris Faulkner 1/24/2024 original video from Fox News has been wiped from the internet. I can’t even find it on her own website…. Thanks again, Elizabeth Stauffer… BTW, I followed you on X…
Ms. Faulkner gave a very optimistic “maybe” report. I’m kinda skeptical that the authorities could have located so many children in such a short time. Where did their leads come from? How many officers are available to chase down those leads?
And of the located children, how many have actually been rescued? I didn’t see that word in the article. Once rescued from their slavery (have you any doubt about their conditions?) what do we do with them?
“…how did the Biden administration fail to find them in four years?”
Very simple: they weren’t looking. Their goal was to create maximum confusion and chaos, not to resolve issues.