Chicago – August 21, 2024
Former President Barack Obama, speaking at the end of the Democratic National Convention’s second night, stressed the need to secure the border without separating children from their parents. However, the Trump 2024 campaign’s “Trump War Room” pointed out that Obama did not address a report from the Homeland Security Office of the Inspector General released earlier that day.
The report stated that 291,000 children who crossed the border illegally during Border Czar Kamala’s tenure remain unaccounted for as of May 2024. According to the inspector general’s findings, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had not issued notices to appear for these children, meaning they do not have scheduled immigration court dates.
The report also highlighted that ICE had transferred over 448,000 unaccompanied migrant children from fiscal years 2019 to 2023 but could not locate all of them after their release from DHS and Health and Human Services custody. Furthermore, more than 32,000 of these minors did not attend their immigration court hearings during this period, as detailed in the inspector general’s report.
