ICE agents have exposed a shocking child trafficking operation under Biden’s immigration policy, revealing the abuse and disappearance of thousands of migrant children placed with dangerous sponsors.
Joe Biden talked a big game about protecting children.
He painted himself as the compassionate leader who would fix America’s immigration crisis.
But Biden officials just got caught in one nightmare that has ICE agents raging.
Biden’s child trafficking assembly line finally dragged into the light
For four years, the Biden administration operated what can only be described as a child trafficking assembly line disguised as immigration policy.
Now ICE agents are pulling back the curtain on a horror show that would make any decent American sick to their stomach.
The Department of Homeland Security just released findings from an investigation that would shock anyone with a conscience.¹
ICE investigators uncovered widespread instances of unaccompanied migrant children placed with dangerous sponsors who subjected them to sexual abuse, forced labor, and neglectful living conditions.
But here’s where it gets even more disturbing.
The investigation revealed that sponsors had criminal backgrounds including violent crimes like aggravated assault, drug trafficking, prostitution and even attempted murder.
That’s right – Biden’s people were literally handing vulnerable children over to violent criminals.
In the most sickening cases, investigators found girls who had been impregnated by their sponsors, while other children were forced into labor.
Some of these monsters even had images of child sexual abuse material on their devices.
The devastating scope of Biden’s failure
The numbers are staggering and heartbreaking.
Under the Biden-Harris administration, more than 500,000 children crossed the Southern border and entered the UAC program, while cartel trafficking activity surged.
That’s half a million children thrown into a system that was designed to fail them.
The investigation documented systematic problems where HHS officials regularly ignored obvious signs of labor exploitation and trafficking.
Government statistics show that HHS had lost track of at least 85,000 children as of February 2023, roughly a third of all migrant minors in the country.
Congressional investigators found that HHS failed to provide complete sponsor addresses for over 31,000 children, while DHS officers estimated that 80 percent of collected addresses were incorrect.
The Biden administration knew and didn’t care
This wasn’t an accident or an oversight.
Biden’s people knew exactly what they were doing when they dismantled Trump’s safety measures.
Trump had left himself vulnerable on the issue of alien children, however, due to a poorly implemented 2018 plan ("zero tolerance") to prosecute alien adults who had brought children with them when they entered illegally in "family units" (FMUs) for "improper entry" (a misdemeanor federal offense). When the adults in those FMUs were sent to U.S. Marshal’s Service custody for prosecution, the children were deemed "unaccompanied" and sent to ORR — a process derided as "family separation" by Trump’s legion of detractors.
But here’s what the media won’t tell you about Trump’s approach.
The Trump administration attempted to address the UAC issue through any number of administrative actions, including "a biometric and biographic information-sharing agreement between ORR and DHS … intended to ensure greater child safety and immigration enforcement".
Biden ripped up those agreements the moment he took office.
By March 2022, it was revealed that ORR had lost 20,000 of the UACs it had released to sponsors under Biden, and complaints about EIS were amplified last September when the HHS Office of Inspector General issued a blistering report on the office’s failures in keeping track of children in its care and vetting potential sponsors.
And what was Biden’s Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra’s response to criticism about spending over $1,000 per day on each child?
He basically said he didn’t want to have to defend the costs to Congress.
That’s the compassionate Democrat Party for you.
Trump is cleaning up Biden’s mess
Thank God Donald Trump is back in the White House.
ICE spokesperson Laszlo Baksay made it clear who’s really fighting for these children now.
ICE spokesperson Laszlo Baksay said "Children’s safety and security is nonnegotiable" while criticizing the previous administration’s failures that allowed vulnerable kids to fall into the hands of criminals.
ICE agents are doing what should have been done all along – actually protecting children instead of rushing them through an assembly line process.
The difference between the two administrations couldn’t be clearer.
Currently under the Trump administration, zero illegal immigrants were released from the southern border into the U.S. in May. Activity along the U.S.-Mexico has fallen to historic lows, with only 6,070 encounters being documented in June 2025.
That’s how you actually secure the border and protect children.
The media’s shameful silence
Where was the mainstream media when this was happening?
By April 17, according to HHS, "the average length of time an unaccompanied child remained in ORR’s care was 25 days". This only changed when the New York Times started running a series of exposés on released UACs who were being forced into grueling labor and hardship in February.
It took the New York Times – not exactly a conservative outlet – to finally expose what was happening to these kids.
But even then, most of the media ignored the story because it made their hero Joe Biden look bad.
They’d rather protect a corrupt politician than vulnerable children.
That tells you everything you need to know about their priorities.
Congress tried to warn America
While the media was asleep at the wheel, Republican lawmakers were sounding the alarm.
Grassley repeatedly warned that the Biden-Harris UAC program’s inadequate safeguards, lax vetting procedures and limited inter-agency communication allowed children to be lost or released to dangerous adult sponsors.
Senator Chuck Grassley has been fighting this fight for years, trying to get answers from an administration that clearly didn’t want to give them.
When asked about her agency’s rejection rate for sponsor applications, the Office of Refugee Resettlement director couldn’t even provide basic statistics about protecting children.
That’s the level of incompetence we’re dealing with here.
The Biden administration turned child protection into a sick joke where the punchline was 85,000 missing kids.
What this really means
This isn’t just about failed government policies.
This is about a fundamental betrayal of the most vulnerable people who needed America’s protection.
Joe Biden and his team created a system that was perfectly designed to benefit human traffickers and criminals at the expense of innocent children.
HHS placed migrant children with potentially dangerous sponsors. In Fiscal Years 2023 and 2024, HHS released more than 24,100 migrant children to unrelated sponsors or distant relatives.
They turned the federal government into an accessory to child abuse and trafficking.
And they did it all while lecturing the American people about compassion and humanity.
The only thing compassionate about Trump’s approach is that he’s actually trying to fix this nightmare and protect these kids.
Biden’s legacy will be 85,000 missing children and a trafficking network that operated with the full blessing of the federal government.
That’s the real Joe Biden – the man who built an assembly line for child predators and called it immigration policy.
Endnotes:
- Immigration and Customs Enforcement Press Release, June 2025
- Department of Homeland Security Investigation Findings, 2025
- Senator Chuck Grassley Official Statement, DHS OIG Report
- House Judiciary Committee Transcripts and Reports, 2024
