Border Security Is More Humane Than Giving Migrant Kids To Strangers Like Biden Did
During Joe “Autopen” Biden’s administration, it was often harder for a divorced parent to get custody of their own child than it was for a random stranger to get custody of an unaccompanied minor in the U.S. illegally. Parents battling for custody must often submit to criminal background checks for everyone in the household, psychological testing, a home study from a social worker, and be cross-examined in court testimony. In fact, some states requires Sunday school teachers undergo an FBI background check; many insurance companies require it.
Under Biden, custodians of unaccompanied minors only needed a pulse.
Federal law requires sponsors of unaccompanied minors to be fingerprinted, get a criminal background check and a home study before keeping a child under their roof. But according to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) data released this week by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), placed 11,488 children with unvetted sponsors who were not their parent or legal guardian, and who were not fingerprinted or did not receive a background check, between Jan. 2021- to Jan. 2025.
During that same time. the Biden-administration failed to conduct home studies for 79,143 children under age 12, including 1,961 children who were placed where a home study was recommended but not done.
“HHS regulations require home studies before releasing a child 12 years or younger to a sponsor who is not their parent or legal guardian,” a summary of the data reads. “The Biden-Harris administration ignored this rule and failed to conduct home studies for approximately 10 percent of migrant children who were recommended to have one.”
It means HHS released thousands of children to people or places that were unvetted, and often, lost track of them. The Biden administration’s policies ripened conditions for criminal trafficking and created a pedophile paradise.
Grassley’s data release this week reflects back to the March 2025 DHS report by the Office of Inspector General that warned in its title, “ICE Cannot Effectively Monitor the Location and Status of All Unaccompanied Alien Children After Federal Custody.”
The report found that as of January 2025, ICE had not served Notices to Appear (in court) to more than 233,000 unaccompanied children. And in October 2024, ICE reported more than 43,000 unaccompanied children who were served Notices to Appear, failed to show up for court dates.
When a child is in foster care or with a sponsor, it is up to the adult to assure the child gets to the court dates. It is worth noting that many children were older teenage boys about to be of military age. As the report shows, the unaccompanied minor route provided an avenue for young criminals to enter the U.S. and disappear.
Ideally, ICE should have monitored the cases of unaccompanied children it placed, yet according to the March report, “HHS feared sharing sponsor information with ICE could lead to law enforcement actions against sponsors, especially those with criminal history or lacking legal immigration status.”
“Actively monitoring cases can help mitigate risks in a non-detained setting. In one example, following release from HHS’ custody, an [unaccompanied child] was caught smuggling other alien children across the border,” the March report reads. “In another example, an [unaccompanied child] was accused of stabbing someone to death after release to a sponsor.”
But ORR didn’t have a clue where they were sending these children. There is a Discharge Notification form to fill out when a child moves to a sponsor’s custody. It requires the child’s name, alien number, date of birth, country of birth, sponsor’s name, the relationship between child and sponsor, the sponsor’s address and phone number.
The information should be shared with ICE. But the report found the addresses ICE had for 31,322 unaccompanied children were either blank, undeliverable, or missing apartment numbers.
Enforcement and Removal Operations officers interviewed for the report estimated addresses were incorrect 80 percent of the time. Another found some addresses did not exist. ORR released 34 unaccompanied children to one of these nonexistent addresses. And around 600 children fled HHS custody, the report shows.
“One [unaccompanied child] fled five times in 1 year,” the March report said. “Another [unaccompanied child] runaway, who admitted to murdering someone in their home country, had an international arrest warrant and, as of August 2024, the [unaccompanied child] had not appeared in court and had not been located.” Another admitted being part of a Mexican cartel.
The media that has spent years lambasting President Donald Trump for how he cares for minors in the complicated immigration system had nothing to say about Biden’s careless treatment of children.
The propaganda press plucks at the heartstrings with reports that Trump put “kids in cages” and is separating families, mischaracterizing his willingness to address a difficult problem as cruelty. But consider the numbers in this crude math exercise based on figures provided in the summary, before deciding who is cruel.
From October 2020 to September 2024, (47 months) HHS cared for 468,736 unaccompanied children. From October 2024 to June 2025 (nine months), HHS cared for 21,399 unaccompanied children.
For the sake of equal comparison, let’s break 47 months into five nine-month groups. Divide 468,736 unaccompanied children by five and we get a rough average of 90,000 children for each nine-month group. Subtract the most recent, Biden/Trump numbers from the Biden era (90,000 – 21,000 =) and we find roughly 69,000 fewer unaccompanied children in need of care or monitoring today from the federal government.
By shutting down illegal border crossings, Trump has eliminated this awful experience for thousands of young children and blunted the threat from older alien minors connected to crime. The media, convinced that Trump’s policies are cruel, should ask these children to rank the hardest part of their experience.
Was it when their parents abandoned them and sent them from home to the U.S. alone? When the children were forced to associate with criminal border coyotes, risking sexual assault or being pulled into trafficking? When they arrived under Biden, were briefly put into HHS custody, and soon released to an unvetted sponsor?
Or was it under Trump, when they were placed in a climate-controlled detention center, given clean clothes, food, water, and recreation while responsible adults helped them figure out their next steps, or sent them home?
Unaccompanied children create a difficult problem. Some are criminals, some are vulnerable. Biden’s open-border, do-nothing approach ballooned the alien youth population, invited crime, and failed to protect vulnerable kids.
The solution to a bad situation is not going to look nice — the propaganda press will continue to capitalize on that. Minors involved in crime or gangs will be deported, if ICE can find them. The U.S. still has thousands of people who entered the U.S. as unaccompanied minors and blended into the population. Some may never be identified.
A closed border (with a door to enter legally) saves children from being swept into criminal enterprises.
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