Biden’s Border Betrayal: 300,000 Missing Kids and a Crisis of Competence

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Hold onto your hats, patriots, because the Biden administration’s border disaster just hit a new low, and it’s a gut-wrenching one. Over 300,000 unaccompanied migrant kids—children, some as young as toddlers—poured across the U.S.-Mexico border from January 2021 to January 2025, and the feds have no clue where most of them are. That’s right, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), led by the spectacularly inept Xavier Becerra, lost track of these vulnerable kids, leaving them prey to traffickers, cartels, and God-knows-what-else. Recent revelations, including a July 11, 2025, ICE raid in Ventura, California, and a scathing August 2024 DHS report, expose a catastrophe of epic proportions. This is a betrayal of our sovereignty and a moral failure that screams for accountability. Let’s rip into the numbers, the failures, and the human cost of Biden’s open-border insanity.

The Tsunami: A Flood of Kids, No Plan

When Joe Biden took office on January 20, 2021, he didn’t just open the border—he flung it wide open, torching Trump-era policies like “Remain in Mexico” and border wall construction with a January 20, 2021, executive order. The result? A record-breaking surge of unaccompanied alien children (UACs)—minors under 18, without parents or guardians, crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. From 2021 to 2024, over 500,000 UACs flooded in, with 152,000 apprehended in fiscal year 2022 alone, per a March 2023 Council on Foreign Relations report. By January 2025, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data pegged the total at over 600,000 since Biden’s inauguration, averaging 125,000 annually compared to 50,000 under Trump’s first three years.
These kids, mostly boys aged 15 or older from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, were handed from CBP to HHS’s Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) within 72 hours, per the 2002 Homeland Security Act. ORR’s job? Place them with vetted sponsors—usually family members—while they await immigration hearings. Sounds simple, right? Except HHS botched it, big time. A February 2023 New York Times report revealed ORR lost contact with 85,000 kids within 30 days of release to sponsors from 2021 to 2023. By August 2024, a DHS Inspector General report upped the ante, estimating 291,000 UACs never got court notices, and 32,000 who did skipped their hearings, leaving nearly 300,000 unaccounted for. That’s a third of all UACs under Biden, vanished into the ether.

The Screw-Up: HHS’s Colossal Failure

HHS’s handling of these kids was a masterclass in incompetence. ORR, led by Robin Dunn Marcos, was supposed to vet sponsors with background checks and follow up with safety calls 30-37 days after placement. But a June 17, 2024, House Judiciary Committee report exposed a “toxic situation” under Becerra, who pushed “assembly line” speed over safety. Marcos admitted in June 8, 2023, testimony that ORR didn’t request criminal records from UACs’ home countries, leaving gang-affiliated teens, like an MS-13 member tied to a 2022 Maryland murder, free to roam. A February 2025 Senate Judiciary Committee report by Chuck Grassley slammed HHS for releasing 24,100 kids to unrelated sponsors or distant relatives in 2023-2024, with 80% of sponsor addresses incorrect or outdated, per DHS officers.
The horror stories are chilling. A November 19, 2024, House Homeland Security hearing detailed kids released to “sponsors” running debt bondage schemes, forcing children to work off smuggling fees. One whistleblower, Tara Rodas, testified about apartment buildings housing 20-40 UACs, some with sponsors juggling multiple kids across ORR sites. A 2021 email from HHS official Jallyn Sualog, cited in an April 17, 2023, New York Times report, warned of kids placed with adults who lied about identities or planned to exploit them. Biden himself chewed out Becerra for failing to secure shelter spaces, per a June 17, 2024, report, while Susan Rice called him an “idiot” for the mess. Yet, nothing changed—HHS kept churning kids out, losing track of them faster than you can say “border crisis.”

Recent Revelations: Raids and Rescues

On July 11, 2025, ICE and CBP raided a Ventura, California, marijuana farm, rescuing eight UAC boys forced into slave labor, per a DHS statement. Posts on X that day claimed the Trump administration has recovered 10,000-13,061 kids since January 2025, though these figures lack primary confirmation. A July 16, 2025, House Homeland Security post highlighted 65,000 unanswered distress calls to HHS, including one from a child reporting men entering his room at night. These revelations, paired with a February 23, 2025, ICE memo targeting 247,000 UACs for deportation—prioritizing “flight risks” like those with non-family sponsors—show the Biden era’s fallout. The memo, reported by Reuters, admitted many kids are now adults or with parents, but the damage is done: 300,000 missing, some trafficked, others exploited.

A July 13, 2025, ORR report confirmed 24,253 UACs were released to unrelated sponsors from 2021 to May 2023, raising trafficking fears. A November 18, 2024, House hearing cited cases of kids in “modern-day slavery,” with sponsors using fake addresses to game the system. Grassley’s February 3, 2025, report noted DHS was stonewalled by HHS, unable to access sponsor data for 31,000 kids, leaving ICE clueless. The August 2024 DHS report warned that kids missing court dates face “higher risk for trafficking, exploitation, or forced labor.” This is a national disgrace—Biden’s policies turned kids into pawns for cartels while his team twiddled their thumbs.

The Democrat Dodge: Excuses and Lies

Democrats, predictably, are deflecting. They claim the “missing” label is overblown—a “paperwork problem,” per Jonathan Beier of the Acacia Center for Justice in an October 2, 2024, AP News report. They argue kids miss court because ICE sends notices to wrong addresses or doesn’t start removal proceedings. Becerra, grilled by Senator Marsha Blackburn on March 2023, played dumb, saying he’d “never heard” the 85,000 figure. Kamala Harris, who barely touched her “border czar” role, dodged accountability, while Tim Walz mumbled during the October 1, 2024, VP debate about “complex” issues. This is swamp-speak for “we screwed up, but don’t blame us.” It’s cowardice—Democrats enabled a crisis that endangered kids and now hide behind bureaucracy.

Why It Matters: A Nation’s Shame

This isn’t just about numbers; it’s about kids—real human beings—left to predators because Biden’s team cared more about optics than lives. Over 8 million migrants crossed the southern border since January 2021, per CBP data, with 400,000 UACs released to sponsors. The 300,000 unaccounted for aren’t just “missing paperwork”—they’re at risk of sex trafficking, forced labor, or worse. A July 2024 Rasmussen Reports poll showed 62% of Americans distrust federal agencies, and this debacle proves why. Biden’s reversal of Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” policy and halt of the border wall fueled a 70% spike in crossings, per Border Patrol estimates. The Flores Settlement (1997) and 2008 Trafficking Victims Protection Act, meant to protect kids, were exploited by cartels who knew lax vetting meant easy access.

Trump’s team is fighting back. Tom Homan, border czar, vowed on July 11, 2025, to track down these kids, with ICE raids targeting farms and factories. A March 25, 2025, ORR rule reversal now lets ICE access sponsor data, undoing Biden’s secrecy. But the damage—300,000 lost souls—is Biden’s legacy. For patriots, this is a call to arms: secure the border, enforce the law, and protect the vulnerable. Every Texan, from Houston to El Paso, deserves a government that puts their safety over open-border chaos.

What can be done?

Biden’s border crisis unleashed a tsunami of over 600,000 unaccompanied kids, with 300,000 now missing, per August 2024 DHS and July 2025 ICE reports. HHS’s shoddy vetting, exposed by whistleblowers and raids like Ventura’s on July 11, 2025, left kids in the hands of traffickers and slavers. Democrats’ excuses—calling it a “paperwork” issue—insult every American who values sovereignty and human dignity. From an America First perspective, this is a national betrayal, fueled by Biden’s gutting of Trump’s border policies. With Homan and ICE on the hunt, there’s hope, but the scars of 300,000 lost kids will haunt us. It’s time to build the wall, deport the enablers, and put America—and its children—first.

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