DHS Locates Nearly 130,000 Missing Unaccompanied Children, Says Noem

The Trump administration recently launched Operation Relentless Justice to identify, track, and arrest child sex predators.

A young illegal immigrant waits to take a shower at the Donna Department of Homeland Security holding facility, the main detention center for unaccompanied illegal immigrant minors, in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas on March 30, 2021. Dario Lopez-Mills/AFP via Getty Images

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Health and Human Services have located more than 129,143 unaccompanied illegal immigrant children whom the prior administration had lost track of, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said in a Dec. 19 post on X.

“Too many of these children were exploited, trafficked, and abused,” Noem wrote. “We will continue to ramp up efforts and will not stop until every last child is found.”