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Smugglers abandoned two migrant children at the southern border in Texas this weekfleeing back to Mexico as Texas authorities came to the girls’ aid, amid ongoing concerns about the number of unaccompanied minors crossing the border.
The Texas Department of Public Safety said his soldiers brought back the two girls, ages five and nine, after the smuggler abandoned them and fled back to Mexico.
The girls from El Salvador carried only a note with an address and phone number, and were then referred to the US Border Patrol.
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Texas police officers rescued two little girls abandoned at the southern border. (Texas Department of Public Safety.)
The incident touches on ongoing concerns about unaccompanied migrant children crossing the border, whose numbers have increased significantly during the recent migrant crisis.
There have been numerous incidents of rescues of abandoned children, often with phone numbers or addresses of relatives or others written on paper or sewn into clothing. When children arrive unaccompanied, they are eventually transferred to Department of Health and Social Services (HHS) and released to sponsors in the US
A National Guard soldier stands guard on the banks of the Rio Grande River in Shelby Park on January 12, 2024 in Eagle Pass, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
The issue made headlines earlier this year when the DHS Office of Inspector General sent a report to Congress stating that over the past five years, more than 32,000 migrant children have been unaccompanied [UCs] failed to appear at immigration court hearings, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement he could not explain the whereabouts of all those who did not appear.
“During our ongoing audit to assess ICE’s ability to track the location and status of UCs released or transferred from the custody of the Department of Homeland Security and the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), we learned that ICE has transferred more than 448,000 UCs at HHS from fiscal years 2019 through 2023,” the internal watchdog reported.
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“However, ICE was unable to account for the location of all UCs released by HHS who failed to appear in immigration court as scheduled. ICE reported that more than 32,000 UCs failed to appear at their immigration court hearings as of fiscal year 2019. until 2023,” it said.
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The guard also determined that approx 291,000 unaccompanied migrant children they have not yet been marked for removal proceedings, as ICE routinely failed to schedule immigration court dates and serve notices.
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ICE’s FY 2024 report found that despite an increase of more than 500,000 unaccompanied migrant children in the US during the Biden administration, only 411 were removed in FY 2024, up from 212 in FY 2023. By comparison, more than 4,000 were removed in fiscal year 2022.
