Border czar Tom Homan provided Fox News host Harris Faulkner an update on unaccompanied children that the Biden administration lost track of during a Friday Fox News appearance.
At least 85,000 children placed into the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) were unaccounted for as of February 2023, according to a report by The New York Times, with the figure believed to be as high as 300,000, according to some Trump administration officials. Homan tore into the Biden administration when “The Faulkner Focus” host asked about a report that at least 7,500 of those children had been accounted for.
“Well, the Biden administration, not only did they lose over 300,000, they weren’t looking for them,” Homan told Faulkner. “President Trump committed from day one, on top of the mass deportations, on top of having the most secure border in the history of this nation, he instructed us go find these kids. We know some of these kids are in forced labor and sex trafficking and we found some, unfortunately, in those conditions. We found many with their families. But we’re gonna find every one of these children and make sure they are safe.”
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ICE executed a search warrant July 10 at two California marijuana farms, rescuing at least ten minors, eight of whom were reportedly unaccompanied. The operation was met with violence, including one person who allegedly fired a pistol at the ICE agents.
“We’ll deal with the immigration consequences down the road, but the first priority… is rescuing those that are forced labor and forced trafficking and making sure they’re safe, something the last administration didn’t do,” Homan said. “They want to talk Trump 45 separating families, you just spoke about a half a million kids coming across the border who were separated from their families and put in the hands of criminal cartels be smuggled into this country. That’s where the real family separation happens.”
“It also happens to the hundreds of angel moms and dads that I met that buried their children murdered by someone that Joe Biden released into the streets of this country,” Homan continued.
Trump issued several executive orders to address illegal immigration and border security, including designating Mexican drug cartels, the Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua (TdA) and the El Salvadoran prison gang MS-13 as foreign terrorist organizations upon taking office on Jan. 20. Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to speed up the deportation of gang members on March 15.
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