Door knocks and DNA tests: How the Trump administration plans to keep tabs on 450,000 migrant kids

AP News ^ | Updated 4:03 PM CDT, May 2, 2025 | AMANDA SEITZ and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER

[E. Pluribus Unum]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration is conducting a nationwide, multi-agency review of 450,000 migrant children who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border without their parents during President Joe Biden’s term.

Trump officials say they want to track down those children and ensure their safety. Many of the children came to the U.S. during surges at the border in recent years and were later placed in homes with adult sponsors, typically parents, relatives or family friends.

Migrant advocates are dubious of the Republican administration’s tactics, which include dispatching Homeland Security and FBI agents to visit the children. Trump’s zero-tolerance approach to immigrants in the U.S. illegally, which has resulted in small children being flown out of the country, has raised deep suspicion his administration may use the review to deport any sponsors or children who are not living in the country legally.

Trump officials say the adult sponsors who took in migrant children were not always properly vetted, leaving some at risk for exploitation. The Department of Justice has indicted a man on allegations he enticed a 14-year-old girl to travel from Guatemala to the U.S. and then falsely claimed she was his sister to gain custody as her sponsor.

Trump officials will do house checks and interviews

Trump officials expect more problematic sponsors will surface as the administration conducts door knocks and interviews to check on cases in which complaints — about 65,000 of them since 2023 — have been filed. This year, about 450 cases with complaints have been referred to federal law enforcement officials, according to a senior Health and Human Services official who was not authorized to publicly discuss details of the review and spoke on the condition of anonymity.

“We’re combing through every report, every detail...

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Don’t absolve Harris for the missing 320,000 migrant kids

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2024/09/22/dont-absolve-harris-for-the-missing-320000-migrant-kids/

[BenLurkin]

450,000 children who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border without their parents

How is this even possible?

Simply reverse the process and send them back. Their parents can pick them up in Tijuana.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Yes, ensure their safety. Make sure their seat belts are on for the deportation flights.

I wish we could just dump them at altitude into the Gulf of America.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

How is this even possible?

The were being trafficked for slave labor and sexual exploitation.

[EQAndyBuzz]

Friday night news dump by the AP.

[madison10]

Doesn’t keeping tabs mean that they know where the kids are? They do not have any idea yet, but are searching.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

>>Migrant Wetback advocates are dubious of the Republican administration’s tactics.

Yeah...Who cares?

[al baby]

Tiajaunna

[SuperLuminal]

Ship them across the Mexican border and forget them...

Do we ever worry about the termites that are cleaned out of our homes...

[kvanbrunt2]

Biden’s child sex trafficking is being uncovered.

[webheart]

It’s important that they can’t bring in children who have no families and exploit them for whatever ungodly reason they have. I think their is some question as to where some children are and what they are doing. The fact that many perverts are able to get child exploitation videos makes you wonder how they are able to find and exploit children without someone finding out. Unaccompanied minors and small children who have no one to watch out for them are extremely vulnerable to predators.

[Texan5]

The article refers to minors/kids under the age of 17/18 who were either kidnapped or taken from their parents under false pretenses-then smuggled in by coyotes for the purpose of being sex trafficked or used for slave labor in some remote sweatshop or on a factory farm operation. Girls of all ages are routinely raped by their captors on their way to the border, too. The “relatives” who pick them up at the ICE/border patrol facilities are their pimps/masters-NOT their relatives. That is why DNA tests need to be done, then fly these kids back to their real parents in their home country-they are not here by choice...

My bro is a LEO with many years experience in apprehending human traffickers-these kids have been abducted-not here because they want to be. The coyotes/cartel members who are exploiting/holding them need to be in a supermax-or before a firing squad. But your suggesting dumping kids out of a plane into the Gulf of America-obviously to their death-is a nasty thing to say-and not something I’d expect from anyone here-you must hate kids...

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Please, I don't hate kids. I "hate" illegal aliens. I remember America before illegal aliens and before the race agitators. It was a better place.

God bless your brother. It must be terrifying to those children kidnapped and held against their will. Let's hope Tom Homan can fix this disaster, and reunite those young ones with their families.

[MayflowerMadam]

It would not surprised me at all if half of those kids are dead. Who knows what gruesome disgusting things were done to them after they arrived here.

[madison10]

Agree. Possibly sold overseas. Did you see “Sound of Freedom?”

[madison10]

What a nasty thing to say about possibly stolen children.

[Texan5]

No one hates mojados more than Texas-born Hispanics like me. I grew up on a ranch in West Texas and I live in a rural area now-here have always been a few mojados out here, but in rural/ranching areas all strangers are noticed and someone calls the sheriff or la migra to come get them. Mojados started avoiding this rural area during the FJB administration because they know rural people of all ethnic groups don’t like them, and everyone is armed so any theft attempts are a bad idea. The city of SA is only 50 miles away-it is easy to disappear in a blue city among a million+ people who don’t pay attention to strangers.

Human trafficking has gone on as long as I can remember-but not at the alarming rate it has been in the last 12 years or so. I just hope all the stolen kids get reunited with their real families before they are seriously injured or murdered. My bro is a sheriff in a quieter county now, with far less trafficking activity, after having retired from BP a year ago...

[MayflowerMadam]

“Did you see ‘Sound of Freedom’?”

I did not; I knew I couldn’t watch it. If I had forced myself to do that, I know that I’d be better informed now about all of what’s going on, but I just couldn’t do it.

[Norski]

Did not want to see The Sound of Freedom myself; however, it was made in a manner which was watchable for those who would be traumatised to see the explicit. In addition, happy ending for the storyline children and family. So, while forcing myself to watch the film and anticipating with dread the experience, was relieved that it was not a trying experience.

Having said the above, must inform you that the film was made by members of the Mormon church, (AKA “Latter-Day Saints, or LDS), including actors and the original agents portrayed in the film. So, while religious, and some even believing and saying that they are Christian believers, they are not.

Mormons believe that God used to be human, their Jesus is the brother of Lucifer rather than the Creator of the Universe (see John 1:1) and that “good Mormons” will become gods themselves.

So, while the movie is worth watching for entertainment value, consumer beware.

[Elsie]

Can you say COWBIRDS???

 

 

 

Brown-headed cowbirds are brood parasites;

 

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 Following the constantly roaming herds, cowbirds couldn’t expend the time for nesting, but rather laid their eggs in host nests as they moved along, leaving host parents to raise their eggs to adulthood. As people began to disperse across North America, clearing forests and expanding domesticated livestock herds and agricultural production, the cowbird range expanded also. Nest parasitism enabled brown-headed cowbirds to quickly establish new populations and expand their distribution across the country.

Impacts

Brown-headed cowbirds parasitize the nests of more than 220 bird species in their range. Each cowbird can lay up to 30 eggs per season and usually lay 1 or 2 (or occasionally more) eggs in each host nest. When parasitizing nests, they often remove the egg(s) of the host bird. Brown-headed cowbird chicks usually hatch sooner than the host chicks, are larger, and develop faster. Their larger size and persistent behavior gains them more care from the host parents. Nest parasitism lowers the reproductive success of host birds and has led to population declines in several bird species. In California, the riparian songbirds least Bell’s vireo (Vireo bellii pusillus) and willow flycatcher (Empidonax traillii) are listed as endangered due to loss of riparian habitat and nest parasitism by brown-headed cowbirds.

Actions Taken if Found

If you observe this species in California, please report your sighting to the CDFW Invasive Species Program, by email to Invasives@wildlife.ca.gov, or by calling (866) 440-9530.

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https://wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/Invasives/Species/Cowbird