President Donald Trump’s administration has already located over 22,000 missing unaccompanied migrant children who vanished under the Biden regime’s watch.
Led by border czar Tom Homan and senior Department of Health and Human Services advisor John Fabbricatore, an elite squad that was assembled to find the missing children has sadly found that 27 did not survive.
Fox News reports, “Under the Trump administration, 22,638 unaccompanied children have been located so far, and more than 400 sponsors have been arrested. Twenty-seven of the minors were found dead, either by murder, suicide, or drug overdose, according to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS.)”
The mission kicked off as one of Trump’s key campaign promises: track down the tens of thousands of kids lost in the system due to Biden’s lax immigration enforcement. Upon taking office, Trump tasked Homan with assembling a volunteer team from agencies like the FBI and Homeland Security Investigations. Operating from a high-tech “war room” in Washington, D.C., officially known as the ORR Interagency Crime Coordination Cell, the group has been sifting through shoddy records left behind by the Democrats.
“It’s important that we find these cases where children are being used for labor and sexually trafficked,” Fabbricatore told the network.
“We found children who have been raped,” he added. “We’re talking about debt bondage, where children are being made to work off debt, trafficking debt. We’re talking about children that were brought into situations and then treated like sexual slaves. You know, where children are in horrific environments, just environments that they should not be in, where the sponsor is a heroin dealer and that child winds up dying of a heroin overdose.”
Many of these tragedies could have been prevented with basic vetting by the previous administration.
Trump admin located 23k MISSING migrant CHILDREN since January — Fox News citing federal agencies
That’s just 5% of nearly half MILLION ‘unaccompanied alien children’ who entered the US during Biden’s 4 yrs
27 children found dead; 400 arrests made of traffickers pic.twitter.com/z0KdW6EbDA
— RT (@RT_com) September 6, 2025
Biden’s team dumped more than 470,000 unaccompanied kids into the system from 2021 to 2024, often releasing them to unvetted “sponsors” without DNA tests or proper checks.
Now, under Trump, safeguards are finally in place: DNA testing to confirm family ties, criminal background checks, fingerprinting, and proof of income for sponsors. Kids are staying in custody longer if needed to ensure safety, and the team is pushing to reunite them with parents in their home countries when there’s no credible fear claim.
“So now, under this administration, we are making sure that we know there’s a real familial connection through DNA, and we are not releasing these children unless we have the right information,” Fabbricatore said. “Children are staying in custody longer, but there’s a reason for that, because we want to ensure that these children remain safe.”
“If their parents are in a previous country and there is not a credible fear claim, is it not better for a child to be with their parents or in our foster care system here in the United States?” Fabbricatore said. “I would argue that we shouldn’t be putting them in care here in the US when they have families in their country of origin. And if we can prove that they’re safer in the country, that they’re going back to, that is where they should be with their parents.”
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