Trump Admin Finds 62,000 Missing Migrant Children as Homan Blasts Biden Over ‘Ignored’ Crisis
The Trump administration has located over 62,000 missing migrant children who were released into the U.S. under President Joe Biden but later went off the grid, according to a bombshell revelation Sunday by Border Czar Tom Homan.
Homan made the claim during an interview on Fox News, accusing the Biden administration of knowingly releasing vulnerable minors to poorly vetted sponsors, some of whom were engaged in sex trafficking, forced labor, or gang activity.
“President Trump saved over 62,000 children’s lives,” Homan said. “Some of these children were in sex trafficking, we found them. Some were in forced labor. Some were being mistreated… I can’t even discuss some of the mistreatment we found out about.”
Inspector General Report, Whistleblowers Fueled the Search
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is tasked with caring for unaccompanied minors and assigning them sponsors in the United States. But an Inspector General’s report last year revealed that more than 320,000 children had gone missing after being released — and 291,000 were never given court dates. Thousands more skipped their immigration hearings.
The same report cited whistleblowers inside HHS, who alleged that the Biden administration knowingly cut corners on background checks in order to quickly clear out backlogs and reduce the appearance of overcrowding at shelters.
Sponsors in some cases turned out to be known criminals, gang members, or traffickers, and children were lost in the system. Some were never contacted again by authorities.
‘This Didn’t Just Happen — It Was Allowed’
“President Trump again proves why he’s the greatest president in my lifetime,” Homan said. “Children that were ignored and weren’t being looked for under President Biden… Trump found them. Democrats want to attack President Trump every day, but they were complicit. This didn’t just happen — it was allowed.”
He added that the same open border chaos has fueled other deadly outcomes, including a historic rise in sex trafficking, border deaths, and fentanyl overdoses, with over 250,000 Americans dead from fentanyl since Biden took office.
Court Dates Skipped, No Tracking System
The report covered cases from October 2018 through September 2023. It confirmed that over 32,000 migrant children who were released with future hearings never showed up to court — and that DHS had no system in place to keep track of where many of them went.
Under Biden’s early policy changes, federal workers were instructed to expedite sponsor placements without the previous administration’s detailed vetting procedures, which included fingerprinting all adults in the sponsor’s household and requiring documentation of relationship and employment.
That policy shift, critics say, opened the floodgates for traffickers and abusers.
Political Fallout
Homan’s explosive remarks are likely to renew pressure on the Biden administration as Trump returns to the campaign trail with border security once again at the center of his platform.
“This is the greatest failure of child protection in American history,” one Trump official told Real News Now. “And Joe Biden didn’t just look the other way — his administration instructed workers to let it happen.”
The Trump team has vowed to overhaul HHS protocols, re-implement full vetting of all sponsors, and prosecute traffickers to the fullest extent of the law.
Homan closed with a blunt warning: “You don’t have to like President Trump. But if you care about these children, if you care about this country, you can’t deny he’s out here saving lives.”