Trump admin hunts down 13K migrant kids after Biden admin lost track of 320K: ‘Children are being saved’
The Trump administration has located and rescued more than 13,000 migrant children who crossed the border without parents — after more than 320,000 kids were lost under the Biden administration, The Post has learned.
The tough-on-immigration admin has also collared hundreds of migrant sponsors who are accused of committing disturbing crimes or abusing the children in their care.
In one frightening case, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Newark arrested a sponsor who was found to be a Guatemalan fugitive wanted for two counts of attempted aggravated homicide in his home country.
Adelso Garcia Martinez, 29, was busted on May 13.
“It is deplorable to imagine that a wanted fugitive would find illegal shelter in the United States with a child in tow and later go on to sponsor another alien,” ICE HSI Newark Special Agent in Charge Ricky Patel said after the arrest.
A shocking report released in August found that the Biden-Harris administration lost track of more than 320,000 migrant children who crossed the US-Mexico border alone.
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The unaccompanied migrants were released into the US without future immigration court dates — meaning there is no way to track their whereabouts — or they failed to show up to court.
Thousands of the kids were also released to sponsors who were poorly vetted, meaning the vulnerable minors were put at risk of sex trafficking, forced labor, and other forms of exploitation, the Homeland Security Inspector General’s report said.
In February, President Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services announced it was launching an investigation into the troubling number of cases of unaccompanied migrant children who may have ended up in the hands of sexual predators and human traffickers because of lax vetting policies.
“Children are being saved,” a Trump administration official told The Post of the effort to locate the kids lost under the previous administration.
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In another sickening case, a 15-year-old girl was rescued in New York after an Ecuadorian man impregnated her and then had his mother sponsor her so they could live together, the Department of Homeland Security told The Post.
The sicko, who was not named, had been in a relationship with the child since she was 13 years old and had impregnated her before she crossed the southern border unaccompanied, the agency said.
His mom sponsored the teen in Harlem, where the trio lived together. Homeland Security agents in New York arrested the child predator on May 28.
An HHS source told NewsNation that under the Trump admin, ICE had arrested 422 sponsors who are accused of abusing the minors in their care, or of other crimes.
“By leaving our borders open and even encouraging people to come here illegally, Biden enabled the largest human-trafficking operation in modern history,” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a statement to The Post on Friday.
“We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to eradicate human trafficking operations targeting the United States. Under the leadership of President Donald Trump, and working together at every level of government, we can win this fight. And we will,” she added.
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Child migrants who cross the border illegally without parents are apprehended by border agents and handed off to HHS, which helps them locate their US sponsors.
Sponsors of migrant minors don’t have to be family members.
The rescued migrant children are either reunited with their families in their home countries or are placed into HHS foster care, sources told The Post.
President Trump’s “border czar” Tom Homan also recently detailed some of the upsetting cases involving kids on Miranda Devine’s “Pod Force One” podcast.
“We rescued victims of sex trafficking [and] two weeks ago, we rescued a 14-year-old that was already pregnant, living with adult men,” he said.
“We rescued some victims of forced labor. We found children working on ranches and chicken farms, not going to school, but enslaved labor in the United States of America,” he continued.
“Some of the children we found [were] perfectly fine with their families … They just didn’t respond to call-ins [because they] didn’t want to face the consequences of immigration court.”
Even after receiving briefings on the horrific cases involving migrant minors, the Biden admin allegedly took “no meaningful steps” to address the issue, according to the Homeland Security Inspector General’s report.
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