A young migrant, traveling alone from Guatemala, stands near the Rio Bravo river after crossing the border, to request asylum in the United States, as members of the Texas Army National Guard extend razor wire to inhibit migrants crossing, as seen from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico May 13, 2023. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez
WASHINGTON D.C. (WSAU) – The Department of Health and Human Services has confirmed to the House Judiciary Committee through newly provided data that nearly half a million UACs (unaccompanied alien children) have been admitted into the U.S. since 2021 without the usual required criminal background documentation.
According to the committee’s report, which the Post Millennial first reported, HHS has referred more than 400,000 UACs to charities and non-profits across the country since President Biden took office—more than twice as many as during the four years of former President Trump’s administration.
The HHS report states that “most of these UACs are teenage boys, not infants or small children,” and that “HHS data show that males accounted for 61 percent of UAC encounters in FY 2023, 64 percent in FY 2022, and 66 percent in FY 2021.”
According to the DEA, many of these unaccompanied young males have ties to criminal organizations such as the Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco New Generation Cartel which have extensive drug and sex trafficking operations in at least 230 American cities, up from 50 cities in 2006. The HHS further confirmed in the report that the department doesn’t “have a policy to refer known gang members to the Justice Department” or “ask UACs’ home country consulates or embassies for their criminal record despite having the ability to do so.”
Back in 2022, New York Times National Immigration Correspondent Miriam Jordan reported that cartel-affiliated “coyotes” help the cartels bring in over $13 billion in revenue every year through illegal migrant smuggling alone, a major jump from the estimated $500 million they earned in 2018. According to her report, many migrants, including minors crossing illegally into the U.S., take out loans or even pay with sex trafficking work or drug smuggling tasks to afford the cartel’s smuggling fees, which can be as high as $10,000 USD per person.
A recent Axios Vibes survey by The Harris Poll from February found that half of Americans, including 42% of Democrats, would support mass deportations of undocumented immigrants, and an ABC News/Ipsos poll from January found that President Biden has an 18% approval rating for his handling of immigration at the southern border, which is the lowest rating on immigration for any president in past ABC News/Washington Post polls since January 2004.
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