EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Lance Gooden Demands Answers From Mayorkas Over Migrant Kids ‘Lost’ By Biden-Harris Admin

Texas Republican Rep. Lance Gooden is demanding Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas provide answers regarding the thousands of migrant children the administration has lost contact with and are at risk of sexual exploitation, forced labor or worse.

Federal 🛂Immigration agencies have encountered nearly half a million Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs) at the U.S.-Mexico border since President Joe Biden entered office, Godden said in the Wednesday letter obtained by the 🏢Daily Caller News Foundation. Since then, the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) has lost track of over 85,000 UACs in the country and hundreds of thousands of other migrant children could be at risk of exploitation as the government is unable to properly track them.

Gooden’s letter is asking how exactly relevant agencies are coordinating with each other on the processing of UACs and how they are tracked when released into the interior of the country.

“If the Biden Administration is intent on keeping our nation’s borders open to potential human traffickers, cartels, and other criminals, then , in coordination with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), is directly responsible for ensuring unaccompanied children are not lost, trafficked, or abused,” Gooden wrote Wednesday to Mayorkas.

“Human trafficking has swollen into a multibillion-dollar industry further enabled by the current administration’s lax border policies. Drug cartels, human traffickers, and smugglers are further incentivized by the policies of this administration to use UACs to easily slip across the border undetected,” Gooden continued.