The Biden Administration Is Losing Migrant Children – And The Media Is Remaining Silent

The Biden-Harris administration has lost track of tens of thousands of migrant children—and yet the media that made a big deal about it during the Trump years doesn’t care.

The Homeland Security inspector general’s damning report on Tuesday found that 32,000 migrant children failed to show up for court hearings between 2019 and 2023, and the number of children in custody is could be much higher, since 291,000 of them never received a summons notice in the first place.

That’s more than 300,000 children federal authorities aren’t keeping track of, children who could very well be in danger: The IG report warns that unaccompanied children “who fail to appear in court are considered at higher risk of trafficking, exploitation, or forced labor.”

And by not issuing summonses, “ICE limits its ability to have contact with (unaccompanied children) when they are released from (Health and Human Services) custody, which reduces the ability to verify their safety.”

To top it all off, “ICE did not consistently notify” HHS when migrant children “failed to appear in immigration court after their release from HHS custody.”

So not only do federal authorities not know where these children are, the proper authorities sometimes don’t even know they’re missing, in part, the report says, because “ICE does not have an automated process for sharing information.”

ICE is overwhelmed by the sheer number of unaccompanied migrant children who have flooded into the country — 113,000 in 2023 alone — since Biden opened the border on his first day in office.

Democrats and their press watchdogs are silent on this lost-child crisis; a far cry from the Trump years, when the media blared the news that HHS had failed to confirm the fate of about 1,500 children over a three-month period in 2018.

These were not cases of failure to appear in court, but cases where HHS contacted the children or their sponsors by phone or text and did not respond.

In total, 54,000 of these cases were recorded in three years under Trump; there were 85,000 in just two years under Biden.

The left refuses to admit the obvious: a weaker border means more unaccompanied migrant children, which means more children falling through the cracks of a strained system.

Border chief Kamala Harris has said nothing about Biden’s border policy change, saying only that it is somewhat “tough.”

So a vote for Harris is a vote to place tens of thousands of already vulnerable children in schools. more hazard.