Fact-check · Sep 10, 2026 · Donald Trump
“They somehow they somehow lost 360,000 children”
MISLEADING
What the record shows
HHS lost contact with 85,000 UACs by early 2023; 233,000 UACs had not been served court notices as of Jan 2025; Trump administration cited 300,000-325,000 as 'lost or unaccounted for' but experts say these figures conflate different metrics.
Sources
- Finding the Unaccompanied Children the Biden Administration Lost | The Heritage Foundation
- 300000 Missing Immigrant Children
- DHS Leads Efforts to Rescue Child Victims of Sex and Labor Trafficking | Homeland Security
- Bombshell Report Confirms Grassley Oversight of Biden-Harris Admin’s Failure to Protect Migrant Children | U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa
- New HHS Data Confirms Biden-Harris Admin Placed Tens-of-Thousands of Migrant Children with Unvetted Sponsors, Declined Recommended Home Studies | United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary
- HHS Stonewalls FOIA Request on 'Lost' Migrant Children
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