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In a new report, the National Security Department (DHS) The Inspector General discovered that the Immigration and Customs Control of the United States (ICE) cannot effectively monitor the location and state of each unaccompanied alien child (UAC) that illegally enters the United States and is released from custody.
Inspector General Joseph V. Cupfari said in the report that between the fiscal years 2019 and 2023, the ice transferred more than 448,000 UAC to the custody of the Department of Health and Human Services of the United States. From there, most UACs were released to sponsors.
But more than 31,000 of those 448,000 children were released to the directions that were blank, had missing numbers or were not deliverable.
The IG also pointed out that the ice did not always know the location of the UACs that fled while they were in custody of the HHS.
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Campfari said an investigation into the matter Ice found He did not issue notices to appear (NTA) to all the UACs, which would have generated the allocation of dates of the Immigration Court by the Department of Justice (DOJ), since January of this year, he had not attended more than 233,000 unaccompanied children.
From the UACs that NTA received before October 2024, more than 43,000 did not appear for their scheduled judicial dates.
The report also found that the ice was not always notified about the safety or the status of children unless receiving a tip. However, those problems, the IG said, occurred because ICE was not always notified about the locations of the sponsors by other federal agencies.
Campfari acknowledged that the staff to monitor each UAC was limited, and without that capacity, there was no guarantee that the children were safe from trafficking, exploitation, forced labor or criminal activity.
The representative Tony Gonzales, Republican of Texas, mentioned the crisis involved in aliens unaccompanied during a subcommittee of the National Security Committee of the House of Representatives on Border Security and Application Hearing on March 25.
They told him that during the Biden administrationHHS lost the notion of many of the minors and that some were subjected to traffic, child labor and other things.
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“The total failure of the Biden administration on the border had disastrous consequences, and it is shameful that even innocent and unaccompanied children were caught in the sights,” Gonzales told Fox News. “The fact that we cannot locate tens of thousands of these minors in the United States is completely unacceptable, since it is likely that many of these children have ended in dangerous situations. Not having answers is unacceptable, and it is time to join our heads to solve this problem forever.”
