By Romas P.S. Moore | Center for Immigration Studies
New information revealing the scale of the Biden administration’s shockingly negligent handling of unaccompanied alien children (UACs) was divulged by former senior Health and Human Services (HHS) appointee John Fabbricatore in a presentation at the Heritage Foundation last week.
Roughly 540,000 unaccompanied minors were apprehended after crossing illegally during the Biden administration. About 448,000 were released to sponsors. According to one Department of Homeland Security investigation, 233,000 were subsequently unaccounted for, with the government uncertain of their whereabouts. Fabbricatore said that HHS did not know the whereabouts of 291,000 children it had released from custody.
Fabbricatore helped lead the Trump administration’s operation to find these kids. He said that the taskforce has located 140,000 of the missing UACs.
The task is difficult, not only because of the lack of monitoring under Biden and Xavier Becerra (his secretary of HHS), but because of the rampant fraud and misrepresentation that was accepted. First, little effort was made to verify family relationships, either at the border or upon release of the child to a sponsor. According to Fabbricatore, only 300 children and alleged family members were subject to rapid DNA testing, out of 2.7 million border apprehensions. Of these 300 tests a shocking 15 percent revealed no biological relationship, implying that tens of thousands more cases of false relationship claims were missed.
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