At Townhall, Mia Cathell asks the key question surrounding this disturbing news. Where are the missing children? The children in question are unaccompanied minors who entered the country illegally between 2019 and 2023. We’re not talking about a few kids who somehow became lost in the shuffle at the border. There are more than 32,000 of them that cannot be accounted for. The Inspector General for the Department of Homeland Security issued a disturbing report on Tuesday admitting that tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors were encountered at the border and given appointments to appear in immigration court at a later date, but more than 30,000 of them failed to appear and ICE is unable to track them and monitor their location or their condition. We are left to ask the obvious question of how something like this was allowed to happen.
Since 2019, the U.S. Immigration and Customs…
