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Minister of Health and Human Services Robert Kennedy Jr. Detailed details of the allegedly lost immigrant children under the Biden administration accused officials of committing “speed over safety” in a hurry to deal with minors.
“What we found was that there were 476,000 unaccompanied children during the Biden administration,” Kennedy said in a “Fox and Friends Weekend” interview on Sunday.
“They want to show that, most importantly, they took the kids out of the cage, so they didn’t conduct a safety check on the people who came to pick them up.”
Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
He accused Biden officials Ignore basic safeguards – Perform DNA testing, fingerprinting, identification checks and other measures to verify adults claiming to be parents of children.
But under the Trump administration, Kennedy said these practices have been overhauled.
“We are doing income verification, we are doing DNA testing, fingerprinting everyone who comes in and saying they are parents. We are knocking on the door and trying to find the lost kids.”
Kennedy claims that federal officials have hit about 82,000 doors so far and recovered about 22,000 children.
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Immigrant children lined up in 2019 at the “Tender Age” facility in San Benito, Texas. (Eric Gay files/AP photos)
He added: “We will continue to do this over the next three years and try to find every child we lost.”
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Kennedy’s remarks echoed the broader Republican criticism of the Biden administration’s handling of unaccompanied minors.
according to Report in August 2024 Between 2019 and 2023, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) transferred more than 448,000 unaccompanied immigrant children to the HHS.
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The report found that ICE was unable to fully monitor the whereabouts of many of these children after release and pointed to lapses in tracking and follow-up, including failures in the inability to ensure court appearances.
But, one Associated Press Report It was noted since October that these findings did not mean that children disappeared or were trafficked, but reflected a systematic collapse in record keeping and follow-up.
