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11 Oct 2024
ICE did not contact many unaccompanied children because removal proceedings had not begun or due to bureaucratic failures, not because the children were missing.

ICE did not contact those 291,000 children because they didn't begin removal proceedings. And in the 32,000 cases where they did and the children didn't appear in court, it's not necessarily because the children had disappeared. It's just as likely that ICE was just not cooperating with other agencies and it sent notices to the wrong place. From the Inspector General's report about this, quote, an HHS official we interviewed said despite the new process for increased coordination between ICE and HHS, ICE did not coordinate when unaccompanied children in the local area did not appear for court hearings. HHS officials stated they would like to collaborate more with DHS locally to help unaccompanied children. ICE is a government body based on enforcement, and they do deportations. They don't know where these children are because it's not in their mandate to monitor them once they're handed over to HHS. And because they cooperate insufficiently with HHS to get the information that they need in so many cases, you have numbers like this.