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On the recordSeptember 17, 2024
in the Biden-Harris America, children disappear every day. You won't see their faces on any milk cartons. Search parties aren't sent for them, and the AMBER alert almost never sounds. According to the Justice Department's filings, some of these children reappear years later in emergency departments with injuries from physical or sexual abuse. Others resurface as underaged laborers working jobs that most adults won't even take, and many are never heard from again. These forgotten children are overlooked because they are unaccompanied migrant children. These are the children who crossed into the United States without their families--without their moms or dads. By February 2023, the New York Times reported the Biden-Harris administration could not reach 85,000 of the unaccompanied migrant children that had entered the United States since 2021. Then, in August of 2024, the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General found the government failed to enroll 291,000 of these children in immigration proceedings over the last 5 years. Of those that were enrolled, 32,000 never showed up to the court. Many of them are missing. Government employees working directly with these kids began to sound the alarm. The Biden-Harris administration responded by quietly, very quietly, suppressing attempts to save these missing children in order to avoid a politically inconvenient narrative.…
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Chuck Grassley
Republican · Iowa

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