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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has misplaced observe of tens of hundreds of unaccompanied minors over the past 5 years.
An inner watchdog inside the Division of Homeland Safety despatched a report back to Congress on Tuesday titled “Administration Alert – ICE Can’t Monitor All Unaccompanied Migrant Youngsters Launched from DHS and U.S. Division of Well being and Human Providers’ Custody.”
The interim report warns that over the previous 5 years, greater than 32,000 unaccompanied migrant kids [UCs] are not accounted for by ICE.
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The inspector common report stated ICE couldn’t account for all migrant children launched by the Division of Well being and Human Providers. (Smith Assortment/Gado/Getty Photographs)
“Throughout our ongoing audit to evaluate ICE’s capability to observe the situation and standing of UCs who had been launched or transferred from the custody of the Division of Homeland Safety and U.S. Division of Well being and Human Providers (HHS), we discovered ICE transferred greater than 448,000 UCs to HHS from fiscal years 2019 to 2023,” the interior watchdog reported. “Nevertheless, ICE was not capable of account for the situation of all UCs who had been launched by HHS and didn’t seem as scheduled in immigration court docket. ICE reported greater than 32,000 UCs failed to seem for his or her immigration court docket hearings from FYs 2019 to 2023.”
A big portion of those unaccounted migrant kids is a consequence of people failing to seem at immigration court docket hearings after being launched from authorities custody.
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FILE – A migrant carries his ICE paperwork after being dropped off at a church serving as a shelter for migrants who’re in search of asylum, after they had been launched by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, on Could 19, 2019 in El Paso, Texas. (Mario Tama/Getty Photographs)
“Regardless of its tasks for overseeing UCs [unaccompanied migrant children] by the immigration course of, we discovered ICE can’t at all times monitor the situation and standing of UCs as soon as they had been launched from DHS and HHS custody,” the report states.
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“Though OPLA issued new steerage to confirm the situation of UCs who failed to seem for his or her court docket hearings and enhance coordination with HHS, we discovered ICE typically neither adopted this steerage nor issued corresponding steerage for its officers within the area,” the report continued.
The report was issued by Inspector Normal Joseph Cuffari and addressed to Patrick Lechleitner, ICE Deputy Director and Senior Official.
A gaggle of migrants touring from Texas exit a bus within the West Loop neighborhood on Dec. 5, 2023, in Chicago. (Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune/Tribune Information Service through Getty Photographs)
The numbers could possibly be even worse than documented — in response to the watchdog’s findings, roughly 291,000 unaccompanied migrant kids haven’t but been marked for removing proceedings as a result of ICE has routinely didn’t schedule immigration court docket dates and serve notices.
The DHS and ICE have come underneath intense scrutiny lately as incapacity to handle the inflow of migrants from South America has led to people slipping by the cracks.
Timothy Nerozzi is a author for Fox Information Digital. You may comply with him on Twitter @timothynerozzi and may electronic mail him at timothy.nerozzi@fox.com
ICE misplaced observe of 32,000 unaccompanied migrant kids, report finds
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