Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin accused the Biden administration of turning a "blind eye" to widespread reports of sexual abuse targeting migrants during a Thursday press conference. "We're going to enforce our nation's laws, and we're going to right the wrongs that the Biden administration turned a blind eye to," Mullin said."It's horrific to what's happening right in our own country because of four years of a blind eye that allowed unvetted sponsors to come pick up 450,000 kids on our borders … their own reports [were] reporting that over a third of the females, regardless of age, was sexually assaulted before they made it to their border."In May 2025, Sen.
Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, obtained Department of Health and Human Services data showing that 65,605 reports regarding migrant children were ignored or dismissed under President Joe Biden, including 7,346 reports of human trafficking.Within 100 days of assuming power, the Trump administration had opened dozens of legal investigations from the previously inactive reports.Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche arrives for the House Appropriations Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Committee Subcommittee hearing titled "Oversight Hearing - Department of Justice" in the Rayburn Building in Washington, D.C., on June 2, 2026.
(Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc)NOEM SAYS TRUMP ADMINISTRATION HAS LOCATED 127K MISSING MIGRANT CHILDREN LOST UNDER BIDENDuring the press conference, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced that three individuals, all purportedly illegal immigrants from Guatemala, had been indicted in the Northern District of Ohio for allegedly conspiring to smuggle more than a dozen children into the United States by "exploiting the loopholes created by the last administration.""This is one example, one indictment, but it is not unique.There are over 15,500 super-sponsor cases that we have identified, along with DHS.
And again, these sponsor cases are when somebody sponsors mo...