Trump administration tracks down 7,500 unaccompanied children who crossed border

The Trump administration has made contact with 7,500 unaccompanied minors who were deemed untraceable after they crossed the U.S.-Mexico border alone and were released into the United States, according to the White House.

Since the start of the year, the government has reached out to more than 7,500 unaccompanied immigrant children through the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Refugee Resettlement, the federal agency that detains and places each child with an adult sponsor in the U.S. after they cross the border, the White House told the Washington Examiner.

The Trump administration contacted the children and their sponsors in person at their residence or through a site visit. The 7,500 children were originally lost because of incomplete or inaccurate contact information originally provided at

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