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“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to insert in the Record an article detailing the number of children that the Department of Homeland Security has lost. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from Texas? There was no objection. [From the Washington Times, Friday, Sept. 9, 2022] Rep. Michael Burgess Demands Answers After Illegal Immigrant Children Go `Missing' (By Stephen Dinan) Rep. Michael Burgess warned the Biden administration that it is endangering children and may be breaking the law after many illegal immigrant juveniles have gone `missing' in Houston. Mr. Burgess, Texas Republican, said he was alarmed by a Reuters report earlier this month that said roughly 48 illegal immigrant children went missing from the Houston homes where the federal Health and Human Services Department had placed them with sponsors. Another nine children ran away from HHS-operated shelters. HHS began a frantic effort to track the children. As of late August, 46 of them had been `confirmed safe,' Reuters reported. Mr. Burgess, in a letter to HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra this week, demanded quick answers on what is going on, saying there were signs the department was putting kids in unsafe situations. ``These patterns have been brought to light by the Houston police chief after noticing an increase in missing UACs from the homes of their U.S. sponsors,'' the congressman wrote.…”