The Trump administration has located more than 22,000 unaccompanied migrant children who were deemed missing after being released into the United States from the U.S.-Mexico border by the Biden administration, according to a Republican senator.
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), who presided over a Wednesday Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the status of the half a million children who crossed the southern border alone between 2021 and 2024, said the Trump administration was making strides in finding countless children lost inside the country.
“Working with state and local law enforcement authorities, the Trump administration has located more than 22,000 missing illegal migrant children and arrested more than 400 criminal sponsors,” Cornyn said during the hearing Wednesday afternoon. “We’ve witnessed progress in the last eight months, although much
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