Since 2019, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has lost track of tens of thousands of illegal alien children released into the United States, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)'s inspector general found.
Inspector General Joseph Cuffari issued the alarming 18-page report titled "Management Alert—ICE Cannot Monitor All Unaccompanied Migrant Children Released from DHS and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Custody." On Tuesday of this week, he sent his office's findings to Congress.
The Biden-Harris open border policy is anything but "compassionate."
Their policy is a lie. And so is the claim that Kamala Harris was never the "Border Czar."
Let's take an honest look at one result of their heinous border policy.
Be informed, not misled.
Townhall is reporting:
According to the internal investigation assessing ICE's ability to monitor the whereabouts and welfare of children who had entered the United States illegally and arrived alone, the immigration enforcement agency cannot locate over 32,000 unaccompanied alien children (UACs) let into the country over a five-year period.
From fiscal years 2019 to 2023, ICE transferred more than 448,000 illegal alien minors to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)'s custody, the audit calculates.
"However, ICE was not able to account for the location of all UCs [unaccompanied children] who were released by HHS and did not appear as scheduled in immigration court," the agency's Office of Inspector General (OIG) reports. "ICE reported more than 32,000 UCs failed to appear for their immigration court hearings from FYs 2019 to 2023."
Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers at only one of the eight field offices the OIG visited reported that they attempted to locate the UACs.
As of May 2024, more than 291,000 illegal alien minors did not receive their required notices to appear (NTAs) in immigration court. At one ICE location the OIG visited, 84 percent (34,823) of UACs in the local area had not been served NTAs to initiate immigration proceedings. Of the 32,000 missing minors, that number may have been much worse had ICE issued the NTAs, the inspector general's report continues.
It would have been much worse. Some estimates say the real number of missing minors is hundreds of thousands.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) says, "This shocking new report confirms our darkest fears and exposes the failures of Kamala Harris," President Joe Biden's border czar. "This administration has lost track of hundreds of thousands of migrant children, likely putting many in the hands of bad actors. We impeached Secretary Mayorkas and we will continue to hold this administration accountable for their alarming failures."
This fiasco is not primarily the fault of the people in the field. The blame lays at the feet of Biden-Harris-appointed leadership and the hideous policies of the Biden-Harris administration—specifically, it is the fault of Secretary Mayorkas. He is not qualified for his position.
Byron York also wrote a recent article expressing his concern over the border failure.
This is part of what he said:
Americans should learn the name of Gianfranco Torres-Navarro. According to U.S. authorities, Torres-Navarro is the leader of a Peruvian crime gang and is thought to be personally responsible for 23 murders. He is a notorious figure in Peru, where he is known as "Gianfranco 23," clearly "a reference to the number of people he is alleged to have killed," according to the Associated Press. He has a girlfriend who, also according to AP, "has a sizable following on the social media platform TikTok where she showed off their lavish lifestyle, including designer clothes, resort vacations and shooting targets at a gun range." Not to put too fine a point on it, but Torres-Navarro's gang is known as "Los Killers."
Here's why Americans should know who he is. Recently Torres-Navarro was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Endicott, New York, a village with a population of 13,667 about 190 miles north of New York City. Given that he is a wanted man, wanted for very serious crimes in Peru, one might ask how he made it to the United States.
The answer is: He just walked in. In May, Torres-Navarro crossed illegally into the United States near Roma, Texas, in the Rio Grande border sector. He was arrested by U.S. authorities who then ... let him go. Like millions of other illegal crossers, he was given a "notice to appear" before an immigration judge at some point far in the future, and then sent on his way.
This miserable failure to secure our country is often supposedly "justified" by the Left by using Scripture.
That's troubling because it misleads many well-meaning people.
Who is the "stranger" in the Bible?
Open borders advocates like to claim that the Bible supports what they call "comprehensive immigration reform," which essentially really means open borders.
The religious left's favorite Scripture to support their position is usually Leviticus 19:33-34:
"And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him. But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt."
Exodus 23:9 reminds us we know how a stranger feels, "For you lived as strangers in the land of Egypt."
Clearly, anyone of Judeo-Christian faith, when they read that passage, would want to do the right thing regarding the "stranger" in our land.
The religious left has built an open borders movement off that Scripture and a couple of others they feel support open borders.
The key question is, "Who is the stranger?"
The religious left argues that a stranger is any foreigner who immigrates, including those who break the law.
"Welcome the stranger" is now the banner for the religious left in their advocacy of, essentially, open borders. And it's always linked with "compassion."
The Bible clearly defines a stranger as "a man of non-Israelite birth, resident in the promised land with the permission of the Israelite authorities." Your Bible dictionary will lead you to these verses.
So, a stranger in Israel was an immigrant who was in the country with permission. Our founding immigration laws were based on Judeo-Christian principles.
When a stranger is mentioned in the Bible, it always refers to a legal alien, not an illegal one, in Leviticus 19:33-34.
Borders were important in ancient biblical times. When Moses led the children of Israel out of Egypt, he asked permission each time he crossed a border and entered a new land. When he was denied permission, he changed course and took a different route.
About 2000 years before Christ, Egypt was an oasis of prosperity and opportunity, much like the United States is today. It was a magnet for migrants suffering from climate or economic difficulties. When famine struck the land of Canaan, Abraham, for example, turned to Egypt for relief (Genesis 12: 10).
Egypt didn't appreciate the surge at their borders because it included hostile marauders and foreign barbarians, which they deemed a threat to their country.
In Genesis 12, we see the story of Abraham lying to the authorities, claiming his wife was his sister. The authorities expelled him from Egypt, and Abraham complied with them. He did not try to sneak back in.
In Hebrew, the Bible uses two different words to define a "foreigner" and an "alien." A foreigner was a person from another land---like a tourist or businessman, who was only in the country temporarily but with permission.
An alien was someone from another land who planned to take up residence, again with the host country's permission.
When Abraham's great-grandson Joseph wanted to bring his father and brothers to Egypt during another great famine, he had to get permission from Pharoah. Even though he held a high government position, Joseph was not Egyptian. He was a guest---a foreigner and could not legally bring his family into the land.
When Joseph's brothers returned, they appealed to Pharoah again (Gen. 47:4-6) to allow them to live in the land of Goshen.
God has called us to a life of compassion, charity, and helping the poor.
Nowhere in the Bible are we instructed to remove the security of borders in the name of the Lord, yet that's exactly what the religious left and this administration are calling for.
Compassion and charity do not require us to look the other way when someone breaks the law, nor do they demand that we deconstruct our nation.
What the Biden administration is doing on our southern border is child abuse---not compassion, yet they claim they're doing it in the name of the Lord.
Be Informed. Be Discerning. Be Vigilant. Be Engaged. Be Prayerful. VOTE.