Immigration and Customs Enforcement has launched an initiative with state and local law enforcement partners to find roughly 450,000 “unaccompanied alien children” who were illegally smuggled into the U.S. during the Biden administration and placed with unvetted sponsors.
The new UAC Safety Verification Initiative is focused on protecting children from sexual abuse and exploitation through a broader collaboration among so-called 287(g) partners.
“The primary focus of this initiative is to conduct welfare checks on these children to ensure that they are safe and not being exploited,” the Department of Homeland Security said.
Florida on Monday became the first state in the nation to implement the initiative.
Under the Biden administration, ORR placed UACs with unvetted sponsors, background checks weren’t performed, UACs were released to alleged gang members, human traffickers, non-family members and sent to non-residential addresses, federal inspector general audits and a Florida grand jury found.
ICE leads joint effort to conduct welfare checks on roughly 450K, Biden-era unaccompanied minors
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