(Daily Wire)—The Trump administration has reportedly located over 13,000 children who entered the United States unaccompanied and illegally before being lost to government tracking systems.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement under President Donald Trump has arrested more than 400 sponsors of unaccompanied minors for crimes related to mistreatment of the children in their care or for other reasons, a Health and Human Services official told NewsNation.
Over 300,000 unaccompanied minors flooded into the United States under former President Joe Biden and were then lost to government officials, according to the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General.
The Trump administration has directed U.S. Customs and Border officials to begin asking older unaccompanied minors between the ages of 14 and 17 if they would like to self-deport back to their home countries. If they answer affirmatively, they are turned over to either ICE or HHS to begin deportation proceedings, according to CNN.
The current practice is not new, but an expanded form of what federal agents had been offering unaccompanied minors before. The offer had been limited to self-deporting to either Mexico or Canada before.
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