Democratic Washington Rep. Pramila Jayapal falsely claimed Wednesday that no unaccompanied migrant children have gone missing in the U.S. during a House Judiciary Committee hearing.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials have lost track of at least 32,000 migrant children who have entered the U.S. and had been released from the custody of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) since 2019, according to a report by the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) in August.
Jayapal claimed these unaccompanied children are “not lost,” but that HHS is simply no longer in contact with the children and their adult sponsors.