Where Did the Feds Put the Unaccompanied Alien Children?

 According to Virginia Allen at The Daily Signal, the Biden administration has released more than “24,000 border-crossing minors to an ‘unrelated sponsor,’ a number representing over half of all 37,088 minors released to nonrelatives from January 2015 through May 2023.” More than half of all the unaccompanied alien children released in eight years were released by the Biden administration in two years. 

Allen used raw government data from The New York Times on the unaccompanied alien children crossing the border to write her article. The data chosen was found on more than 10,000 pages of information about the number of children crossing the border into America “without an adult and then were handed over to someone other than a family member.”

From January 2015 through May 2023, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released tens of thousands of minors who crossed the border illegally to sponsors who weren’t an immediate or distant relative, raising concerns about human trafficking and forced labor.

“More children are cross the border on their own than ever before, and thousands are ending up doing dangerous, illegal jobs,” New York Times reporter Hannah Dreier wrote on X in a thread sharing the numbers with the public.

The Times sued the government to gain access to the records, which reveal more than 555,000 minors crossed the border illegally between 2015, halfway through Barack Obama’s second term as president, through May 2023, about two years and four months into Joe Biden’s presidency. From 2017 through 2020, Donald Trump was president. The data includes when each child arrived in the U.S., each child’s sex and country of origin, date released to a sponsor, relationship to that sponsor, and the ZIP code where the sponsor lives.

The data reveals that 37,088 unaccompanied alien children were released to an “unrelated sponsor,” 24,253 of which were released during Biden’s presidency between January 20, 2021, and May 25, 2023.

“Americans have the right to know that criminal cartels are bringing unaccompanied minors into our country as a result of President Biden’s failed border policies,” Rep. Michael Guest, R-Miss., told The Daily Signal. “The president must answer to the American people as to why he has failed to secure the border and been unable to protect these children from harm.”

The minors have been released to sponsors across all 50 states and a map created by the Times shows where the children, at least initially, were sent.

The Office of Refugee Resettlement, an agency in the Department of Health and Human Services, is responsible for placing unaccompanied alien children with a sponsor in America.

The Office of Refugee Resettlement has an “order of preference” for releasing the children: parent; legal guardian; an adult relative; an adult designated by the parent; a licensed program, or an adult who seeks custody when there is no one else to do so. Just to make sure that they are doing their duty, “the Department of Health and Human Services checks on all unaccompanied minors” after thirty days.

Data obtained by The Times “showed that over the last two years, the agency could not reach more than 85,000 children.” This information suggests that the United States Government is the world’s largest child trafficker. Do you want your tax dollars going to child trafficking, or do want your government involved in child trafficking?