Ignored reports and a new push to review them
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said Thursday that the Biden administration turned a blind eye to reports of abuse involving migrant children, including claims of sexual assault and trafficking. He pointed to Department of Health and Human Services data obtained by Sen. Chuck Grassley in May 2025 that showed 65,605 reports were ignored or dismissed under President Joe Biden, along with 7,346 reports of human trafficking. The Trump administration, Mullin said, opened dozens of legal investigations within its first 100 days after inheriting what he described as an inactive pile of warnings. Bureaucracy, as usual, seems to have mistaken paperwork for protection.
Ohio indictment adds to the list of cases
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced that three people, all described as illegal immigrants from Guatemala, were indicted in the Northern District of Ohio for allegedly conspiring to smuggle more than a dozen children into the United States. Blanche said the case involved what he called loopholes left by the previous administration and noted that investigators have identified more than 15,500 super-sponsor cases, where one person sponsors more than three unrelated children. That is the sort of number that makes every agency memo sound a little more confident than the results it produced.
Past warnings on sponsor checks were not new
The issue did not appear out of thin air. A 2021 HHS Office of Inspector General report found that many child sponsors were not properly vetted before minors were released to them, including 19 percent of sponsors for whom authorities never received FBI fingerprint or state child abuse registry checks. The Biden administration later sued Southwest Key in July 2024 over alleged sexual abuse and harassment of children at one of its facilities and accepted reform recommendations after the inspector general findings. DHS did not add new comment beyond pointing to Mullin’s remarks, while the DOJ and Biden office did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Mullin said his team has found 146,000 children so far and vowed to keep pressing the search for the rest.
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