Overview

• ICE and CBP have recovered about 10,000 of an estimated 300,000 unaccompanied migrant children who went missing under the previous administration.
• ICE agents discovered eight unaccompanied minors and two other juveniles during a recent raid on a cannabis facility in Camarillo, California.
• A DHS Office of Inspector General report from August 2024 found that over 290,000 migrant children received no court notices after crossing and more than 32,000 released from custody could not be tracked.
• President Trump directed intensified border enforcement upon taking office in January 2025, accelerating coordinated rescue missions by ICE and Border Patrol.
• Officials warn that many of the missing children were at risk of forced labor, sex trafficking and other abuses before their recovery.