The Biden administration was an abject failure on the border. But it’s worse than you ever thought.
Because a U.S. Senator’s turned up evidence of Biden admin crimes involving abuse of migrant children.
Thousands of Migrant Kids Dumped with Unvetted Strangers Under Biden as Trump Cleans Up the Chaos
Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley dropped a bombshell on Monday, unveiling fresh data from the Department of Health and Human Services that lays bare the Biden-Harris administration’s reckless handling of migrant children at the southern border. The revelations confirm long-held suspicions among conservatives that the previous White House prioritized open-border chaos over the protection of vulnerable kids, placing over 10,000 unaccompanied minors with sponsors who never faced proper vetting.
Grassley obtained this information through his persistent oversight efforts, which the Biden team largely ignored or obstructed. Now, with the Trump administration in charge, the facts are finally coming to light, exposing a system riddled with negligence.
According to the data, from January 2021 through January 2025, HHS’ Office of Refugee Resettlement handed off 11,488 unaccompanied migrant children to unvetted sponsors who weren’t even their parents or legal guardians. Even more alarming, during that timeframe, the department skipped home studies for over 79,000 children under age 12 – including cases where such checks were explicitly recommended.
“My oversight continues to expose disturbing evidence that the Biden-Harris administration turned a blind eye to tens of thousands of kids who needed proper supervision and care,” Grassley said in a statement. “It’s appalling to prioritize speed and optics over the safety and wellbeing of children. I appreciate the Trump administration’s efforts to undo the damage caused by the last administration’s failed border policies, and I’ll continue my oversight of the issue to ensure abuse like this never happens again.”
This scandal is just the tip of the iceberg in a border crisis that exploded under Biden-Harris, with illegal crossings hitting unprecedented levels and overwhelming America’s resources.
Customs and Border Protection recorded over 1.6 million encounters at the southwest border in fiscal year 2021, surging to a staggering 2.2 million in 2022 – the highest on record – before dipping slightly but still alarmingly high at 2 million in 2023 and 1.5 million in 2024.
These numbers don’t even account for the estimated 1.7 million “gotaways” – migrants who evaded capture entirely during the Biden years, slipping into communities across the nation.
The floodgates opened wide after Biden halted border wall construction, scrapped the effective Remain in Mexico policy, and imposed a 100-day deportation freeze, actions that critics say violated core immigration laws and invited chaos.
Human trafficking boomed as a result, with cartels exploiting weak enforcement to smuggle people and drugs, including deadly fentanyl that ravaged American families.
Fentanyl overdose deaths skyrocketed under Biden, climbing from around 93,000 total drug overdoses in 2020 to over 100,000 annually, with fentanyl accounting for 73,654 fatalities in 2022 alone – more than double the figure from just three years earlier.
Crimes committed by illegal immigrants also spiked, with ICE arresting thousands, including gang members, m*rderers, and child predators who crossed during the crisis. For instance, over 35,000 illegal aliens with criminal convictions were encountered at the border, and operations netted hundreds more involved in violent offenses like DUIs, assaults, and child exploitation.
The unaccompanied minor program became a magnet for abuse, as Biden officials publicly signaled they wouldn’t turn back kids, encouraging smugglers to send over 550,000 children – many abandoned at the border or drugged to evade questions – only for HHS to lose track of at least 300,000, exposing them to trafficking and forced labor.
Billions in taxpayer dollars flowed to non-governmental organizations to prop up this broken system, funding shelters and services that essentially facilitated the influx, while immigration court backlogs tripled to over 3.7 million cases.
Asylum rules were twisted beyond recognition, granting claims based on flimsy reasons like gang violence or climate issues, allowing masses to stay without meeting legal standards.
Mass parole abuses let inadmissible aliens bypass proper channels, including those from high-risk countries, further straining communities already burdened by the surge.
Voters ranked this border fiasco as the Biden administration’s top failure, with illegal immigration surging by some eight million, costing states billions in education, healthcare, and law enforcement.
Now, the Trump administration is taking decisive action to reverse the damage, launching an interagency probe in February into fraud and trafficking within the unaccompanied minor program. These reforms aim to restore order, ensure proper vetting, and prioritize American safety over globalist open-border fantasies that nearly destroyed our sovereignty.
