White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller by U.S. Department of Homeland Security / Flickr
White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller said July 25 that the Biden administration released 450,000 unaccompanied migrant children into the US — far higher than previous reports of around 300,000.
“We now believe the true number of missing children that Joe Biden trafficked into the country, that Democrats trafficked into the country, is 450,000, not 320,000,” Miller said in an interview with FOX News’ Sean Hannity.
“The Democrats have committed crimes to which they can never be forgiven,” he added, “and Donald Trump is cleaning it up.”
According to NewsNation, the Trump administration has located more than 13,000 unaccompanied migrant children who were previously unaccounted for under the Biden administration.
In a post to X, Miller claimed that 90% of the addresses the Biden administration recorded for unaccompanied migrant children were either “fake, false, or abandoned.”
Miller’s remarks come as congressional testimony continues to raise alarms about how the Biden-era Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) handled unaccompanied minors.
Earlier this month, counter-trafficking expert Ali Hopper testified before the House Homeland Security Committee that a hotline created by the previous administration’s HHS — supposedly to protect migrant children — failed to respond to 65,000 calls.
Hopper said the calls included everything from “complaints about stale bread” to “being abused.” There was “one case where a child’s call was reporting that grown men were coming into his room at night and they were touching him,” she added. “Nothing happened with that call.”
On July 24, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testified to the House Energy Committee that children were handed over to sponsors at locations including strip clubs, parking lots, and shipping containers.
“I’ve witnessed horror stories of the same person picking up child after child after child, using different names and addresses,” Kennedy told lawmakers. “One person got 42 kids to one address.”
In April, Kennedy accused the department of becoming “a collaborator in child trafficking for sex and slavery” under the Biden administration.
