ICE Unable to Account for 32,000 Unaccompanied Illegal Immigrant Children, Watchdog Warns

Published on August 22, 2024

U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is unable to account for more than 32,000 unaccompanied illegal immigrant children who failed to appear for court hearings, according to a recent watchdog report. The Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General (DHS OIG) stated in the Aug. 19 report sent to Congress that it uncovered an urgent issue regarding how immigration cases involving illegal immigrant minors have been handled. According to the report, ICE has been unable to keep track of unaccompanied minors released from government custody in the past five years. Between the Trump and Biden administrations, from 2019 to 2023, immigration authorities transferred more than 448,000 unaccompanied minors from ICE custody to the Department of Health and Human Services, according to the interim assessment....

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