The Department of Homeland Security wants to find the children abused and lost during the Biden open border years.
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For years, countless human and sex traffickers ran amuck, taking advantage of former President Joe Biden’s open border policies, leaving behind a dark legacy of abused children.
But now, the Trump administration is taking “a sledgehammer to human trafficking rings and ensuring these children who were smuggled across the border are not being abused,” according to the Department of Homeland Security.
“Secretary Noem is leading efforts to rescue and stop the exploitation of the 450,000 unaccompanied children the Biden administration lost or placed with unvetted sponsors. Many of the children who came across the border unaccompanied were allowed to be placed with sponsors who were smugglers and sex traffickers,” said Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin
The Trump administration has located more than 24,400 of these children in-person, in the United States, through visits and door knocks, we’ve jumpstarted our efforts to rescue children who were victims of sex and labor trafficking by working with our state and local law enforcement partners to locate these children,” Mclaughlin said. “President Trump and Secretary Noem are laser-focused on protecting children and will continue to work with federal, state, and local law enforcement to reunite children with their families.”
"ICE announcing a brand new operation to conduct welfare checks on the 450,000 children that the Biden Administration placed with unvetted sponsors — some of whom were sex traffickers, gang members, and abusers." pic.twitter.com/0UqWYO25tT
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) November 17, 2025
According to DHS, the new law enforcement partnership, known as the UAC Safety Verification Initiative, embodies ICE’s commitment to protect vulnerable children from sexual abuse and exploitation through collaboration with 287(g) law enforcement partners. The main focus of this initiative is to do welfare checks on these children to make sure that they are safe and not being exploited.
“These children were put under some heinous criminals,” Deputy ICE Director Madison Sheahan told Fox News. “We’ve made it our mission, thanks to President Donald Trump and Secretary Noem, to find these children and reunite them with their families.”
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