Overview
- White House border czar Tom Homan said on Fox & Friends that teams located or rescued more than 62,000 children who entered the U.S. alone.
- He reported that some of the children were found in sex trafficking or forced labor situations, with additional cases of severe mistreatment.
- Homan described coordinated efforts with federal, state, and local authorities that included welfare checks, sponsor investigations, and enforcement against trafficking networks.
- A Department of Homeland Security inspector general report last year found ICE released about 291,000 unaccompanied minors without notices to appear, undermining tracking after release.
- Homan accused the Biden administration of failing to look for the missing minors and asserted that officials lost track of hundreds of thousands of children.