President Donald Trump has criticized the federal government for failing to protect more than 300,000 young immigrants accepted through the Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) program.
“325,000 migrant children have gone missing under this administration.” President Trump made the remarks at a press conference on the California coast on September 13th.If you take the largest stadium in California, you can fill it with five or six times as many people. And those people are missing children. Many of them are dead. Many of them are sex slaves or slaves. [a] Different nature.”
“There couldn't be a bigger scandal than this,” he said.
A federally supported labor trafficking program is a political risk for Kamala Harris, who used her role as a senator in 2018 and 2019 to minimize protections for immigrant youth in the United States.
It's also a powerful Republican rebuttal to Democrats who have gleefully accused Trump of “putting kids in cages” and “torn families apart” during his presidency.
The missing youths are approximately 350,000 children and young people Since 2021, an increasing number of children have been entering the United States using the 2008 “unaccompanied alien children” loophole. Many of the children are brought to the U.S. border by smugglers who contract with undocumented immigrant parents hoping to reunite with their children who they left behind.
But at least half of the migrants are young men looking for work in the United States at wages far higher than what their parents earn in southern Mexico.
The majority of missing teenagers and young men are missing because they refuse to communicate with their guardians at the Department of Health and Human Services, which is legally tasked with delivering young migrants from the border to volunteer “sponsors” throughout the United States pending a final court decision on the youths' legal status.
Many of the sponsors are human traffickers who force young men into dangerous and abusive jobs. Some also force teenage girls and young women into prostitution. Nearly all of the young people are eager to work, in part because they need to repay loans to their smugglers. Breitbart News reports on the scandal: Part of sex trafficking.
In August, the Department of Homeland Security's inspector general reported: Many of the UACs are “at risk of trafficking, exploitation and forced labor.”
The sheer number of untracked migrants suggests that Vice President Kamala Harris has been implicated in halting federal checks on people who “sponsor” young migrants crossing the border.
The government shutdown occurred while President Trump was in office and Harris was a senator from California.
In 2018, Trump's security forces arrested more than 150 would-be sponsors, many of them illegal immigrants. The arrest was “outrageous.” Harris responded..
She then Inserted a rider into the spending bill Prohibits the Department of Health and Human Services from sharing sponsorship-related information with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The rule made it easier for labor brokers to import young people to work in the UAC program.
after that, The New York Times Showed Many young immigrants have been abused in the workplace, and some have even been murdered. Democrats have ignored the scandal, in part because the UAC program is intended to reunite illegal immigrants in the US with their children or wives they left behind.
“Christian works construction instead of going to school. He's 14. Carolina packs Cheerios in a factory at night. She's 15. Wonder starts looking for a day job before sunrise. He's 13,” the paper captioned a photo of teenagers allowed into the country through the unsupervised UAC process.
The young people typically work for temporary staffing agencies that are low-wage subsidiaries of Fortune 500 companies such as PepsiCo, General Mills, Walmart, Target and Ben & Jerry's. Report Journalist Hannah Dreier said:
These workers are part of a new economy of exploitation. Entering the United States A New York Times investigation found that record numbers of children are living apart from their parents and working some of the country's toughest jobs. This shadow workforce spans industries across every state and ignores child labor laws that have been in place for nearly a century: 12-year-old roofers in Florida and Tennessee; underage slaughterhouse workers in Delaware, Mississippi and North Carolina; children cutting planks on the night shift in South Dakota.
In August, Breitbart News reported:
The Ministry of Labor will: 88 percent Child labor trafficking has increased compared to 2019. Last year, approximately 6,000 children, many of them minors, were found to be engaged in cruel, life-threatening and illegal work.
Last April, an HHS whistleblower testified before Congress, warning that the agency was running a “billion-dollar child trafficking operation” that was resulting in mass handovers of UC to unvetted adult sponsors.
“Some sponsors see children as commodities and assets to generate income, which is why labor trafficking is on the rise,” the whistleblower said.
House Republicans are investigating the child labor business, but Democrats and their media allies have tried to ignore, downplay and cover up the child trafficking scandal since it began to worsen in 2014.
