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Former ICE director and now border czar Tom Homan has been blunt about what his team has uncovered since returning to the fight at the southern border, saying his office is actively locating children who slipped through the cracks under prior management. Conservatives should celebrate that someone is finally treating this as the moral and national-security emergency it is, and not just another political talking point.
HHS whistleblower Tara Rodas has been relentless in sounding the alarm, repeatedly testifying to Congress about systemic failures in the Unaccompanied Children program and the tragic reality of children being lost to traffickers and criminal sponsors. Her on-the-record statements make clear this is not hyperbole but a documented breakdown of oversight that demands accountability from those who presided over it.
Where the numbers get messy is the result of years of bureaucratic dysfunction and sloppy record keeping, not honest transparency from the previous administration. A DHS report and multiple fact checks show the oft-cited “300,000 missing” figure actually comes from records about notices to appear and other paperwork gaps — but that explanation does not absolve the humanitarian catastrophe behind the paperwork.
Media elites and left-wing apologists love to pounce on sloppy conservative shorthand and say the facts are “misleading,” but conservatives are right to hold the line: children were released into the country without proper vetting or follow-up, and too many ended up exploited. The grown-ups who allowed this to happen owe the public answers, and any effort to find and rescue these kids deserves praise, not political spin.
This administration’s early action to prioritize finding these children should be celebrated by every patriot who puts children and public safety ahead of ideology. We should demand prosecutions of traffickers, serious vetting of sponsors, and a full audit of how tens or hundreds of thousands of vulnerable kids could be dispersed without meaningful oversight under the previous regime. No excuse, no cover-up, and no political immunity for those responsible.
Homan has even proposed empowering ordinary Americans to help spot and report abuses — a commonsense appeal to the civic pride and responsibility of parents and neighbors who know when something looks wrong. If a 1-800 tipline and a national push can save even one child from slavery or sexual exploitation, it is worth every ounce of effort and patriotism we can muster.
The left’s media machine will try to gaslight the country into thinking this is all exaggeration, but Tara Rodas’s testimony and the mounting on-the-ground recoveries demand nationwide outrage and action. Hardworking Americans should press their representatives, support law enforcement priorities that put children first, and refuse to let bureaucratic excuses bury the truth about what happened to these vulnerable kids.
