Smugglers deserted two migrant kids on the southern border in Texas this week, fleeing again to Mexico as Texas authorities got here to the little ladies’ rescue, amid continued considerations concerning the numbers of unaccompanied minors coming throughout the border.
The Texas Division of Public Security mentioned that its troopers had recovered the 2 little ladies, who’re 5 and 9 years outdated, after the smuggler had deserted them and fled again to Mexico.
The women, from El Salvador, carried solely a observe with an deal with and telephone quantity, and have been then referred to U.S. Border Patrol.
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Texas troopers rescued two ladies deserted on the southern border. (Texas Division of Public Security.)
The incident faucets into ongoing considerations about unaccompanied migrant kids coming throughout the border, with numbers growing considerably in the course of the current migrant disaster.
There have been a variety of incidents of deserted kids being rescued, usually with telephone numbers or addresses of kin or others written on paper or stitched into clothes. When kids arrive unaccompanied, they’re transferred ultimately to the Division of Well being and Human Providers (HHS) and launched to sponsors within the U.S.
A Nationwide Guard soldier stands guard on the banks of the Rio Grande at Shelby Park on January 12, 2024, in Eagle Move, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Photographs)
The problem made headlines earlier this 12 months when the DHS Workplace of Inspector Basic despatched a report back to Congress discovering that, over the previous 5 years, greater than 32,000 unaccompanied migrant kids [UCs] had not proven up for immigration court docket hearings, and that Immigration and Customs Enforcement couldn’t account for the situation of all of those that didn’t seem.Â
“Throughout our ongoing audit to evaluate ICE’s means to observe the situation and standing of UCs who have been launched or transferred from the custody of the Division of Homeland Safety and U.S. Division of Well being and Human Providers (HHS), we discovered ICE transferred greater than 448,000 UCs to HHS from fiscal years 2019 to 2023,” the interior watchdog reported.Â
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“Nonetheless, ICE was not in a position to account for the situation of all UCs who have been launched by HHS and didn’t seem as scheduled in immigration court docket. ICE reported greater than 32,000 UCs failed to look for his or her immigration court docket hearings from FYs 2019 to 2023,” it mentioned.
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The watchdog additionally discovered that roughly 291,000 unaccompanied migrant kids haven’t but been marked for elimination proceedings, as a result of ICE has routinely didn’t schedule immigration court docket dates and serve notices.
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ICEs FY 2024 report discovered that, regardless of the surge of greater than 500,000 unaccompanied migrant kids into the U.S. in the course of the Biden administration, simply 411 have been eliminated in FY 2024, a rise from the 212 in FY 2023. For comparability, greater than 4,000 have been eliminated in FY 2022.
