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The Recovery of Thousands of Missing Unaccompanied Minors Should Be a Big Deal; Why Isn’t It?

On Thursday, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy gave testimony before the Senate Finance Committee. In his opening remarks, Kennedy mentioned as part of his successes as HHS Secretary, the location of 22,000 of the 476,000 unaccompanied minors that had gone missing from the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) under the Biden-Harris administration.

First, we are doing our part to fulfill the president’s commitment to stop human trafficking, especially of children. We  inherited a terrible humanitarian crisis from the previous administration with its open border policies which allowed the appalling loss of 476,000 unaccompanied children. We have implemented policies now to ensure that that appaling tragedy can never happen again.

We have knocked on 82,000 doors and located 22,000 of those children. I promise you that we will do more in the next three years.

As RedState reported in August of 2024, the Office of Inspector General had documented the number of unaccompanied minors that had gone missing as 290,000. 

In 2020, then-Senator Kamala Harris tweeted about the “outrageous” separation of 545 unaccompanied minors, attaching a link to an NBC article directly blaming the Trump administration. Fast forward to 2024, and under Border Czar Kamala Harris, ICE has now reported that over 290,000 undocumented minors are not only separated from their parent or guardian, but no one in the Biden-Harris administration knows where they are. Not a peep from NBC News, and the few headlines from other news organizations use the generic designation of “The Department of Homeland Security” instead of attaching this gross incompetence to the Biden-Harris administration.

By November 2024, when then-HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra was in the hot seat for his complicity in this debacle, this number had expanded to 320,000. All told, between January 2021, when Biden-Harris first threw open the border, to December 2024, ORR had received more than 470,000 referrals for unaccompanied minor children, and all those children had somehow disappeared into the ether.

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Migrant children lost under the Biden Administration found dead or working as sex slaves

After an estimated 233,000 children who crossed the US-Mexico border alone during President Joe Biden‘s tenure were lost, law enforcement has started to locate them –  only to learn of the horrors they have faced. 

Since March, the Trump administration has tracked down 22,638 kids, finding some in ‘deplorable’ conditions, dead and others being used as sex slaves, officials told Fox News. 

‘We found children who have been raped,’ John Fabbricatore, HHS Office of Refugee Resettlement senior advisor told the network. 

‘We’re talking about debt bondage, where children are being made to work off debt, trafficking debt. We’re talking about children that were brought into situations and then treated like sexual slaves.’ 

At least 27 of those lost children have been confirmed dead, with causes of death ranging from murder, suicide, car accidents or drug overdoses. 

‘Children are in horrific environments, just environments that they should not be in, where the sponsor is a heroin dealer and that child winds up dying of a heroin overdose,’ explained Fabbricatore.

These children are classified by the government as ‘unaccompanied minors’ -underaged migrants who crossed the US border without a parent or legal guardian. 

An uncle, older sibling, or other relative might be traveling with the child, however, the minor would be considered unaccompanied because they are not with a legal parent.

Often times, the parents were already in the US and had saved up money to pay smugglers to bring their children in.

In a heartbreaking video, a two-year-old girl from El Salvador told Texas Department of Safety troopers who found her in November that she was on her way to reunite with her mom and dad. 

While kids have sometimes crossed the border alone, during Presidency of Joe Biden, the number exploded, alongside overall illegal immigration. 

Often, children were arriving at the border completely alone, pushed over the border wall by smugglers who abandoned them.

In another shocking case, a 2-month-old baby was found in Rio Grande City, Texas by Border Patrol agents.

‘This is a chilling reminder of how children are being exploited by human smugglers & criminal organizations every day,’ the agency shared on its Instagram account in Sept. 2023

In one instance, two brothers were found at the Texas-Mexico border with handwriting on their t-shirts with the child’s name or the contact information of a relative in the US.

Someone had written the contact information of family members in the US on their clothing in marker. 

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Biden Promised His Hyundai Georgia Car Plant Deal Would “Create More Than 8,000 New American Jobs”, Instead Hundreds of Illegals Busted by Trump Admin

The Hyundai electric car battery plant construction site in Ellabell, Georgia that was the scene of a massive immigration raid on Thursday by the Trump administration was created as part of a deal announced by Joe Biden during a trip to South Korea in 2022.

Biden promised the Hyundai plant would create “more than 8,000 new American jobs.” The ICE raid Thursday resulted in the arrest of hundreds of illegal aliens from South Korea among the 475 illegals arrested, according to Homeland Security.

Excerpt from a May 2022 AP report on Biden’s Hyundai deal announcement made in South Korea:

President Joe Biden tended to both business and security interests Sunday as he wraps up a three-day visit to South Korea, showcasing Hyundai’s pledge to invest at least $10 billion in electric vehicles and related technologies in the United States.

…Hyundai’s investment includes $5.5 billion for an electric vehicle and battery factory in Georgia.

Appearing with Biden, Hyundai CEO Euisun Chung said Sunday his company would spend another $5 billion on artificial intelligence for autonomous vehicles and other technologies.

“Electric vehicles are good for our climate goals, but they’re also good for jobs,” Biden said. “And they’re good for business.”

…Hyundai’s Georgia factory is expected to employ 8,100 workers and produce up to 300,000 vehicles annually, with plans for construction to begin early next year and production to start in 2025 near the unincorporated town of Ellabell.

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Florida Issuing Civil and Criminal Subpoenas to Employer of Illegal Alien Truck Driver Whose Illegal U-Turn Allegedly Killed Three

Florida is issuing civil and criminal subpoenas to the employer of the illegal alien truck driver whose illegal U-turn allegedly resulted in the death of three individuals in St. Lucie County on August 12, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced this week.

The illegal alien truck driver has been identified as Harjinder Singh, who steered his 18-wheeler through a U-turn on a Florida turnpike — an illegal maneuver — resulting in a minivan crashing into the trailer, killing three. What is more, the Department of Transportation (DOT) revealed that officials with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) had launched an investigation into the deadly crash in Florida and found that the truck driver failed the English Language Proficiency (ELP) assessment. He provided “correct responses to just 2 of 12 verbal questions,” and accurately identified 1 of 4 highway traffic signs,” according to the DOT press release.

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Obama Judge Says to Hell with Supreme Court, Blocks Trump Admin From Canceling Protected Status For 1.1 Million Venezuelans and Haitians

A San Francisco-based federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump Administration from canceling Protected Status for 1.1 million Venezuelans and Haitians.

US District Judge Edward Chen, an Obama appointee, acknowledged the Supreme Court’s ruling but claimed the high court did not bar him from adjudicating the case on the merits.

Earlier this year Judge Chen temporarily paused Trump’s plans to end Biden’s TPS program.

The DOJ argued that the parole programs were discretionary and it is up to the government to decide when it can cut the program.

In May, the Supreme Court in an 8-1 decision lifted Judge Chen’s block on Trump’s order to revoke protected status for hundreds of thousands of migrants while the policy was challenged in court.

Judge Chen said the Supreme Court didn’t bar him from issuing an order.

The Associated Press reported:

A federal judge on Friday ruled against the Trump administration from ending temporary legal protections that have granted more than 1 million people from Haiti and Venezuela the right to live and work in the United States.

The ruling by U.S. District Judge Edward Chen of San Francisco for the plaintiffs means 600,000 Venezuelans whose temporary protections expired in April or whose protections were about to expire Sept. 10 have status to stay and work in the United States.

Chen said Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s actions in terminating and vacating three extensions granted by the previous administration exceeded her statutory authority and were arbitrary and capricious.

CBP data found that over 1 million illegal aliens have been allowed into the US through what the Biden Regime defined as “legal” means.” The Biden-Kamala admin used the CBP One App and the CHNV program to allow illegals entry into the US.

These numbers are not included in the millions of illegals that have entered the US under Joe Biden’s watch.

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Rep. Yassamin Ansari Had to Google ‘Constituent,’ Defends Using Tax Dollars for Illegals

Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ) defended her use of the word “constituent” to describe illegal aliens during a press conference on Capitol Hill Thursday, saying she googled the word after criticism and found it to include “somebody who is part of a community.”

Ansari was asked by a reporter whether she views “those with absolutely no form of legal status at all” as her constituents.

She responded:

So I didn’t realize this was such a controversy until the right wing media started attacking me for using the word so I googled the word constituent. The definition of constituent is somebody who is part of a community. Doesn’t matter what their legal status is. If somebody is an asylum seeker, if somebody has a green card, if somebody is a U.S. citizen, if somebody lives in the community, I represent them. Constituent does not mean voter. I don’t care if none of these individuals can vote for me, I don’t give a sh*t.

She continued, “I care about making sure that the United States government, with our taxpayer dollars, is treating human beings with dignity and respect.”

The comments followed backlash Ansari faced earlier this week when she referred to illegal aliens in ICE detention as her “constituents” during a visit to a facility in Eloy, Arizona. On Saturday, she told reporters she had been contacted by detainees and characterized the conditions inside as “dehumanizing, racist, unacceptable,” adding that she met a woman with leukemia who had lost 55 pounds without access to a specialist.

“Constituents include citizens, green card holders, DACA recipients, asylum seekers, refugees — and yes, people in ICE detention in Arizona,” Ansari wrote in a follow-up post after the visit. “Members of Congress shouldn’t pick and choose who matters or who deserves help.”

The Arizona Democrat’s position on immigration has attracted attention throughout her freshman term. In April, Ansari traveled to El Salvador with Reps. Maxwell Frost (D-FL), Robert Garcia (D-CA), and Maxine Dexter (D-OR) to press for the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national identified by the Department of Homeland Security as an alleged MS-13 gang member and accused domestic abuser. The group joined Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), who had already traveled to El Salvador on a taxpayer-funded trip to advocate for Abrego Garcia.

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The Progressive Pantheon Of Pathetic Heroes

American left-wing heroes are proving to be a creepy bunch.

So what do some of the most renowned “resistance” left-wing heroes have in common other than shared hatred of conservative America?

They are either criminals, pathological liars, or self-described performance-art victims.

Take Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the current face of progressive resistance to the enforcement of federal immigration law.

No one questions that Garcia had previously received deportation orders before he was re-arrested by ICE.

No one argues that his current wife, Vasquez Sura, had in the past successfully petitioned for at least two protective restraining orders against Abrego Garcia—to stop his violent beatings and his manic destruction of household items.

In the old Democratic Party, the worst allegation possible was to be cast as a beater of women.

No one contests that in 2022, Garcia was pulled over in Tennessee for speeding and recklessly veering out of his lane.

He was then found to have an invalid driver’s license. He was accompanied by eight illegal aliens without IDs. And his vehicle was registered to an imprisoned and likely human trafficker. Garcia had been variously recognized in deportation hearings as a member of the violent and lethal MS-13 gang.

Yet when ICE began to deport him, the left went ballistic and constructed him as some sort of civil rights saint.

Senators tossed drinks with the illegal alien.

A few politicos trekked on a holy hejira to El Salvador to demand from the autonomous El Salvadorian government the release of a Salvadorian citizen held in jail on Salvadorian soil—as if they were 19th-century Yanqui imperialists dictating to an elected Central American government that the United States had more rights of jurisdiction over an illegal alien than did the government of El Salvador over one of their own citizens on their own soil.

Feminists said little about his brutal propensity to strike women. Anti-gang activists went mostly mum about his MS-13 affiliations. Those decrying human trafficking were quiet about his transportation of illegal aliens.

Instead, all that was needed of this useful illegal alien pawn was the Democrat meme that Abrego Garcia was a victimized person of color and a target of Trump’s supposedly racist, restrictionist, and xenophobic border policies. His crimes in comparison were immaterial if not advantageous to the cause. No one bothered to remember the legions of innocent women killed and raped by violent illegal aliens.

Mahmoud Khalil was a different, far smoother sort of leftist icon. The pro-Hamas Algerian “student” came to the US supposedly for the chance at an Ivy League education. He soon stayed on a green card, becoming the poster boy of anti-Israel protests at Columbia.

To counter sometimes violent campus and urban pro-Hamas demonstrations and endemic anti-Semitism in elite higher education, the Trump administration decided that it no longer wished to import student force multipliers of widespread anti-American and anti-Semitic boilerplate.

In other words, the Trump administration ordered Khalil deported on the grounds that he was admitted as a guest student, not a perennial campus gadfly organizer spouting support for the terrorists of Hamas.

Note the U.S. is the host, Khalil the guest. And hosts need no reasons to disinvite unruly or obnoxious guests, who abuse the privileges (that most American citizens lack) of attending an Ivy League school.

Yet in the Democratic binary of oppressed/oppressors, Khalil fit the bill.

He was a “lite” Hamas supporter and a clever anti-Israel activist who oversaw demonstrations that were overtly anti-Semitic in his host country. The only lingering question is why do pro-Hamas, anti-American Palestinians so often demand to visit and study in the hated U.S. when there are universities receptive and conducive to Islamists and Hamas enablers closer to home?

The left seemed mostly uninterested in any of the 1,200 slaughtered on October 7 in a time of peace, only in those who championed the cause of that murderous rampage.

The left also went gaga over the wealthy, aristocratic, and supposedly charming young Luigi Mangione, the assassin of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson. Not since the terrorist and mass murderer Dzhokhar Tsarnaev adorned the cover of Rolling Stone has the left so romanticized a stone-cold psychopath.

Mangione quickly became a supposed counter-culture freedom fighter, with his good looks battling the corporate insects who supposedly feed on hoi polloi.

In reality, Thompson was an up-from-the-bootstraps Midwesterner who, by merit, not birth, climbed to the top of the corporate world, murdered by Mangione, a spoiled, rich wannabe pseudo-intellectual who cowardly hid in wait to blow apart Thompson for the supposed crime of running the company that made a profit selling needed health insurance to willing buyers.

But for the left, the death throes of Thompson were out of mind and out of sight, while Mangione was interviewed and lauded on social media as a righteous revenger and the arm of the exploited.

Do we even now remember the faker Jussie Smollett?

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Tom Homan: 28,000 of Biden’s 300,000 Missing Trafficked Children Located – “The Last Administration Wasn’t Even Looking for Them”

Border Czar Tom Homan on Friday said that the Trump Administration has located 28,000 of the 300,000 children that the Biden Administration lost track of at the border and left with unvetted individuals to be exploited. 

“The last administration wasn’t even looking for them,” he said.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, investigative reporter Breanna Morello revealed in May that 300,000 children went missing during the Biden years.

Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) gave fake addresses for the 300,000 missing children.

“Now it’s up to the Trump administration to find those kids,” Morello said.

It was later revealed in July that the Biden Administration had allocated $6 billion in funding and grants to NGOs through the Department of Homeland Security and Health and Human Services, among others, and the NGOs were handing unaccompanied minors at the border to “poorly-vetted sponsors.”

Ali Hopper, founder of GUARD Against Trafficking, testified in a House Homeland Security Committee hearing that there were “post-placement welfare checks,” which consisted of two phone calls. But if the sponsors didn’t answer, “the case was no longer followed up on.”

From August 2023 to January 2025, 65,000 calls went unanswered, Hopper said.

This corroborates Breanna Morello’s reporting that “the Biden administration didn’t seem to care when it came to verifying who they were handing these children off to.”

Homan said they’ve located 23,000 of these children, and that the administration is “not going to stop until we find every one of them or at least run every lead down on those 300,000 children.”

He also commented on the sanctuary cities, whose leaders are now facing potential criminal charges after ignoring a deadline set by the Department of Justice to comply with Homeland Security and ICE.

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CBS News Caught Deceptively Editing Kristi Noem’s Comments on MS-13 Gang Member Kilmar Abrego Garcia

CBS News is at it again!

CBS on Sunday deceptively edited DHS Chief Kristi Noem’s comments on MS-13 gang member, wife beater and child predator, Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

A federal grand jury in Tennessee recently indicted Kilmar Abrego Garcia for “transporting undocumented migrants within the United States.”

He was charged with one count of conspiracy to transport aliens and one count of unlawful transportation of undocumented aliens.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia was ordered to be deported to the East African country of Uganda after a judge recently released him from a Tennessee prison.

However, a radical Obama-appointed judge blocked the US government from immediately deporting Abrego Garcia to Africa.

On Sunday, DHS Chief appeared on CBS’s Face the Nation to discuss the Trump Administration’s work to make the country safer by arresting and deporting dangerous criminal aliens like Abrego Garcia.

CBS cut off Kristi Noem as she was detailing Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s many crimes.

In the clip that aired, Noem said, “[And] the one thing that we will continue to do is make sure that [Abrego Garcia] does not walk free in the United States of America.”

In the unaired clip, Noem said, “This individual was a known human smuggler, MS-13 gang member, an individual who was a wife beater and someone who was so perverted that he solicited nude photos from minors and even his fellow human traffickers told him to knock it off. He was so sick in what he was doing and how he was treating small children. He needs to never be in the United States of America and our administration is making sure we’re doing all that we can to bring him to justice.”

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No, That Wood-Chopping Illegal Alien in Washington State Is Not a ‘Firefighter’ or ‘Victim’

Friday night, a relative sent me a text. That wasn’t unusual. He’s recently discovered texting as a vehicle to rant, and specifically, to rant at me. The context also wasn’t unusual. It was a rant about “fascist Trump.” Trump, he wrote, had sent his stormtroopers to Washington state and they had pulled two, brave firefighters off the front lines of a forest fire. Fascist! He cried – they are pulling  firefighters away from fighting fires!  What amount of children and puppies will die because of Trump?!  

This relative is a card-carrying leftist. I don’t know the source of his Kool-Aid. I could guess. Maybe it’s just ghosts in his head, but he’s not alone. Politicians who know better disseminate nonsense and half-truths to agitate the base. Gavin Newsom has been stumping lately, claiming that Trump will “cancel” the 2026 elections. 

After I got the text from my relative (and sighed deeply), I looked up what actually happened. This is from a  U.S. Customs and Border Protection news release:

Due to the remote location of the work site, BLM requested USBP assistance verifying the identities of all personnel present. The work crews, totaling 44 individuals, required identity verification to ensure that the individuals on-site matched the contractor rosters.

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USBP agents supported BLM rangers in verifying the identities of the contracted personnel. Several discrepancies were identified, and two individuals were found to be present in the United States illegally, one with a previous order of removal. The two individuals were arrested and transported to the Bellingham Station on charges of illegal entry and 8 US Code 1326 – Reentry of removed aliens. Forty-two individuals were released from the scene and escorted off Federal lands. 

The contract termination and enforcement action did not interfere with firefighting operations or the response to any active fires in the area, nor did it pose any danger to the surrounding community. 

Border Patrol had been alerted that those illegal aliens had been hired by an independent, third-party contractor based in Oregon. They were “firefighters” on paper but neither were fighting fires. Border Patrol checked records, and the contractor’s records didn’t match the people on site. Officials found two guys who had entered the US illegally and detained them. 

Those two were not out on the fire line stopping a fire. They weren’t saving babies. They weren’t rescuing puppies. They were chopping wood. Those two were detained and transported to a detention center. But legacy media turned the narrative into CBP and ICE pulling heroes away from the front lines. My relative bought that myth, like every myth he’s consumed since Trump was sworn in.  

Dem politicians are fond of pouring gas on the fire. They are also fond of lying. 

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