DHS Says It Has Located 146,000 Migrant Children Lost During Biden Admin

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, praised the administration’s enforcement efforts and argued that concerns about the migrant sponsorship system had been ignored for years.

“I spent YRS sharing whistleblower evidence of migrant child trafficking w the Biden admin while my Democrat colleagues turned a blind eye,” Grassley wrote on social media.

The Trump administration has also directed the Department of Health and Human Services to prioritize investigations involving allegations that migrant children may have been trafficked, abused or exploited after being released to sponsors.

Officials say those efforts include examining leads involving sex predators and criminal organizations that may have taken advantage of weaknesses in the vetting process.

Records previously reported from the Office of Refugee Resettlement indicated that some Biden administration officials emphasized quickly placing children with sponsors.

Former Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra was previously quoted as comparing the desired pace of releasing children to an “assembly line,” according to reporting by The New York Times.