Former acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf told Newsmax on Tuesday the President Joe Biden's legacy will be the thousands of unaccompanied alien children the Biden administration "lost" track of.
"The big, you know, kind of thing that I think the Biden administration will be known for is this UAC crisis that they have created," Wolf told "American Agenda."
"[O]ver 300,000 have been lost in the immigration court system. And you have to assume that the vast majority of them, unfortunately, are being trafficked."
An unaccompanied migrant child is defined by the U.S. government as someone who is under 18, lacks lawful immigration status and has no parent or guardian in the country to take custody of them. When they're apprehended by the Department of Homeland Security, they're transferred to the HHS's Office of Refugee Resettlement.
They are then placed "in the least restrictive setting that is in the best interests of the child," according to the resettlement office. That can mean shelters, foster care, or residential treatment centers among other options. If possible, children are released to sponsors, often family members, who can care for them.
After meeting last month with Tom Homan, President-elect Donald Trump's border czar, Adams said, "[W]hat I've learned also from sitting down with him and a representative from the Biden administration that was there in the meeting, is we have 500,000 children who have sponsors in this country that we can't find.
"We can't find them. We don't know if they're doing child labor. We don't know if they're doing sex crimes. We don't know if they're being exploited."
Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.
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