Nearly 25,000 Missing Illegal Immigrant Children Have Been Found: Tom Homan

Some of these children were pushed into forced labor and sex trafficking, the Trump administration’s border czar said.

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

Nearly 25,000 missing illegal immigrant children in the United States have been identified by the Trump administration, border czar Tom Homan said this past week.

“When President Trump called me to come back from retirement, he told me they wanted me to do three things—secure the border, run the largest deportation operation the country’s seen, and third, find over 300,000 missing children. And that was priority one,” Homan said in a Sept. 18 interview with Fox News.