Border czar Tom Homan stated on Friday that border officials have rescued approximately 10,000 of the 300,000 unaccompanied migrant children who went missing during former President Joe Biden’s administration.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) recently raided a marijuana facility in Camarillo, California, where they found eight unaccompanied minors and two other juveniles, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Rodney Scott confirmed on Thursday. Homan told “Fox & Friends” that around 10,000 of these children have been recovered since President Donald Trump returned to office.
“We are looking for over 300,000 missing children. We’ve already found around 10,000, have you heard that anywhere? No, because the media’s simply not covering it,” Homan said. “And look, this should be a non-partisan issue. Arresting public safety threats and national security threats, everyone should be on the same page on that. Rescuing children, I mean, that should be a non-partisan issue.”
A report from the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) released in August 2024 found that approximately 291,000 unaccompanied migrant children who illegally crossed the U.S.-Mexico border did not receive court notices, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) lost track of over 32,000 children released from custody since 2019.
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Under the Biden administration, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), responsible for placing unaccompanied children with adult sponsors, reunited roughly one-third of these children with their parents, The New York Times reported. According to an internal investigation by the inspector general, the rest were placed with relatives or in homes that were sometimes deemed unsuitable for children.
