Under the Trump and Biden services, tens of thousands of alone illegal immigrant minors have been lost, according to an internal guardian report released by the Trump and Biden services.
A statement sent to Congress on Tuesday, addressed to ICE Deputy Director Patrick Lechleitner and issued by Inspector General Joseph Cuffari, titled” Management Alert – ICE Cannot Monitor All Alone Migrant Kids Released from DHS and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ‘ Prison,” was reported by Fox News.
32, 000 unaccompanied migrant children (UCs ) have been reported missing from immigration court hearings over the past five years and have not been properly documented by ICE according to the report.
We learned that ICE transferred more than 448, 000 Uc to HHS from governmental times 2019 to 2023 as part of our ongoing inspection to determine its ability to track the location and position of Workability who were released or transferred from the Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ( HHS).
The internal guardian report continued,” Despite the internal guardian report, ICE was unable to account for the area of all Workability who were released by HHS and who did not appear in immigration judge as scheduled.” ” Over 32, 000 Uc did not show up for their immigration judge sessions” according to ICE, between FY 2019 and FY 2023.
According to the report, the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Health and Human Services have the authority to oversee unaccompanied migrant children throughout the immigration method, but the most recent investigation has found that ICE” don’t usually track the location and status” of the children once they are released from custody.
We found that ICE frequently failed to follow this direction or issue related assistance for its officers in the field, despite OPLA’s new guidance confirming the place of UCs who failed to appear for their court hearings and improving coordination with HHS, according to the report.
Cuffari warned that without ICE having the ability to track both the status and the location of unaccompanied migrant children, there is no way to ensure that they are protected from exploitation, forced labor, and trafficking.
The report claimed that the statistics could be worse than the numbers expected because roughly 291,000 unaccompanied migrant children have not been designated for removal proceedings as a result of the agency’s inability to set immigration court dates and give people notices to show up in court.
