Joe Biden trusted half a million kids to strangers – and didn't bother to check if they were alive.
Now Trump's border czar just revealed the number of children his team has pulled out of the darkness.
And Tom Homan just told the world what Joe Biden did to 300,000 children.
What Biden Actually Did to These Kids
Nearly 500,000 children crossed the southern border alone during the Biden years.
HHS officials were proud of one thing: they weren't keeping kids in detention long.
Tom Homan told The Epoch Times exactly why that pride was obscene.
They released those children fast – to sponsors who were never properly vetted.
Addresses turned out to be supermarkets.
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Names turned out to be fake.
When the government tried to follow up, phones went unanswered.
Within months, Washington, DC had lost track of nearly 300,000 children – and did nothing about it.
A 2024 Department of Homeland Security inspector general report confirmed what conservatives had been screaming for years: ICE could not account for the location of hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied children after HHS released them into the country.
The Biden administration's response?
Kamala Harris called the numbers "not even possible to believe."
They were real.
The children were not safe.
What Trump Found When He Went Looking
Trump gave Homan three directives when he brought him back: "Secure the border, run deportation operations, and find these kids."
Homan told The Epoch Times he was far less optimistic about the third task.
Adults leave trails.
"We own homes, we own cars, we have credit cards," he said. "Children don't."
But his team started pulling every thread.
ICE, the FBI, and the Office of Refugee Resettlement began running down leads on children who had disappeared into a system that never bothered to look for them.
What they found was a horror story.
Some children were fine – hiding with parents who feared deportation.
Many were not fine.
When ICE showed up at the addresses HHS had on file, they found parking lots and churches instead of homes.
When they located the children themselves, they found something the Biden administration had chosen not to see.
Sex trafficking.
Forced labor.
Children working overnight shifts on ranches and chicken farms, not going to school, not being paid, being abused in ways Homan said he couldn't publicly discuss.
By January, Homan's team had crossed 145,000.
As of this week, the number is 157,000 – and more than 20 of those children were already dead when they were found.
Some died of natural causes.
Others from drug overdoses.
Others from violence.
The Democrats Who Defended This System
Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon didn't condemn Biden for losing 300,000 children.
He condemned Trump for trying to find them.
When the Trump administration located children and began deportation proceedings for some, Wyden fired off a letter accusing the administration of proceeding with a plan that "knowingly endangers their lives."
These are the same children Biden handed to unvetted sponsors and never called to check on.
The same children who turned up in sex trafficking networks and forced labor operations.
The same children Homan's team spent the past 20 months hunting down, one lead at a time.
Wyden's concern wasn't where these kids were for four years.
His concern started the moment someone started looking.
The Man Who Has Seen This Before and Cannot Forget
Tom Homan has been at the border for 40 years.
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He told The Epoch Times about a 9-year-old girl who was sexually assaulted making the journey into the United States years ago – a girl he said he will never forget.
"That little girl's never going to be the same again," he said.
The Biden administration didn't create cartels.
But it built a pipeline that fed them.
Half a million unaccompanied children – smuggled into the country, handed to strangers, and forgotten – while HHS officials congratulated themselves on keeping detention numbers low.
Trump made one promise to Homan: keep looking until the last day of the administration.
Homan made one promise to the American people: "We're not giving up."
There are 140,000 children still out there.
Sources:
- Jan Jekielek, "Homan Says 157,000 Missing Unaccompanied Immigrant Children Located," The Epoch Times, September 26, 2026.
- Bradley Devlin, "The Facts Behind Biden-Harris Admin's Loss of 300K Migrant Kids," The Daily Signal, August 23, 2024.
- "DHS Initiative Uncovers Widespread Abuse, Exploitation of Unaccompanied Kids Placed with Previously Improperly Vetted Sponsors," U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, February 2025.
- "Homan: 62,000 Migrant Kids Rescued Under Trump Admin," Legal Insurrection, December 7, 2025.
- "Border Czar Tom Homan Says Over 145,000 Missing Children Brought in Under Biden Have Been Found," The Christian Post, January 2026.
- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, Press Release on DHS OIG Report, U.S. Senate, August 2024.