The Trump administration has located and rescued more than 13,000 migrant children who crossed the border without parents — after more than 320,000 kids were lost under the Biden administration, The Post has learned.
The tough-on-immigration admin has also collared hundreds of migrant sponsors who are accused of committing disturbing crimes or abusing the children in their care.
In one frightening case, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Newark arrested a sponsor who was found to be a Guatemalan fugitive wanted for two counts of attempted aggravated homicide in his home country.
Adelso Garcia Martinez, 29, was busted on May 13.
“It is deplorable to imagine that a wanted fugitive would find illegal shelter in the United States with a child in tow and later go on to sponsor another alien,” ICE HSI Newark Special Agent in Charge Ricky Patel said after the arrest.
A shocking report released in August found that the Biden-Harris administration lost track of more than 320,000 migrant children who crossed the US-Mexico border alone.
The unaccompanied migrants were released into the US without future immigration court dates — meaning there is no way to track their whereabouts — or they failed to show up to court.
Thousands of the kids were also released to sponsors who were poorly vetted, meaning the vulnerable minors were put at risk of sex trafficking, forced labor, and other forms of exploitation, the Homeland Security Inspector General’s report said.
In February, President Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services announced it was launching an investigation into the troubling number of cases of unaccompanied migrant children who may have ended up in the hands of sexual predators and human traffickers because of lax vetting policies.
“Children are being saved,” a Trump administration official told The Post of the effort to locate the kids lost under the previous administration. --->READ MORE HERE
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The Trump administration has located 13,000 children who crossed the border unaccompanied under President Joe Biden, the Department of Homeland Security announced Friday.
Under the Biden administration, about 300,000 unaccompanied alien children were either “lost” or placed with sponsors that were not adequately vetted, and some were “allowed to be placed with sponsors who were actually smugglers and sex traffickers,” according to DHS.
“The evil of human trafficking cannot be overstated. It’s modern-day slavery,” DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said in a statement. “By leaving our borders open and even encouraging people to come here illegally, Biden enabled the largest human trafficking operation in modern history.”
In March, the Department of Health and Human Services found 65,000 reports of unaccompanied alien children that had gone unaddressed under the previous administration, according to DHS.
Now, HHS is digging into these reports, which has resulted “in more than 4,000 investigative leads, including fraud, human trafficking, and other criminal activity,” DHS reports.
“We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to eradicate human trafficking operations targeting the United States,” Noem says. “Under the leadership of President Donald Trump, and working together at every level of government, we can win this fight. And we will.” --->READ MORE HERE
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