Josh Hawley demands answers from Biden-Harris administration over missing, abused immigrant children

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) blasted Biden-Harris Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Thursday after a report revealed that hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrant children have gone missing into the interior of the US, where many are likely to be subject to forced labor, sex trafficking, and other abuses.

Unaccompanied children are admitted to the US when they show up at the border. They are often handed off to sponsor, and those sponsors are not vetted by the government. This has led to children being unaccounted for and many suffering abuse at the hands of those sponsors, though the numbers on that are not known.

In a letter sent to Mayorkas, he stated, "Unaccompanied migrant children are some of the most vulnerable individuals in America. They are routinely trafficked for sex, forced into illegal labor, burned with chemicals, and subjected to countless other atrocities by cartels."
 

The Harris-Biden open border has created the largest child trafficking ring in US history - and now Harris & Co have lost track of nearly 300,000 migrant children. I want to know how this happened - and what they’re doing to fix it pic.twitter.com/pAll6BiXMt

— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) August 21, 2024