The Biden-Harris border catastrophe has now reached a shocking new low.
Newly released data from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), made public by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), reveals that the Biden regime handed over more than 11,000 migrant children to strangers who were never vetted, fingerprinted, or background-checked, in direct violation of federal law.
Even more disturbing, the regime skipped home studies for more than 79,000 children under the age of 12, abandoning basic child protection measures designed to keep kids safe from predators, traffickers, and criminals.
“[Today] I released HHS data [that] exposes [the] Biden-Harris [administration] [for] placing [over] 11,000 migrant children [with] unvetted sponsors [and] not conducting home studies for [over] 79,000 migrant kids. Thankfully, the Trump [administration] has launched an interagency initiative [to finally] address these issues [and end] the abuse,” Grassley wrote on X.
He continued, “Biden-Harris admin refused to comply w my multiple investigative requests for this info. NUMBERS T LIE. It’s plain as day the last admin mismanaged the program [and ]put kids at risk.”
Biden-Harris admin refused 2 comply w my multiple investigative requests for this info NUMBERS DONT LIE Its plain as day the last admin mismanaged the program + put kids at risk
— Chuck Grassley (@ChuckGrassley) August 18, 2025
A newly released letter from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to Senator Chuck Grassley reveals that the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) let 65,000 “Notices of Concern” pile up UNADDRESSED between 2021 and 2024.
These “Notices of Concern” include reports of missing children, abuse, neglect, sex trafficking, and organized crime connections.Federal law requires them to be acted on within 24 hours.
Instead, the Biden-Harris team buried them while they rushed to clear out overcrowded detention facilities and secretly shipped children off to unvetted “sponsors.”
According to the HHS data summary, between January 2021 and January 2025, 11,488 migrant children were placed with unvetted sponsors who were neither parents nor legal guardians, and never subjected to the mandatory FBI fingerprinting process.
Federal statute (8 U.S.C. 1232(c)(3)(A)) clearly requires these checks, but the Biden regime simply ignored the law.
That means more than 1 in 10 migrant children who were handed over to strangers were placed in households where the government never bothered to confirm whether adults were criminals, abusers, or traffickers.
The scandal gets darker. According to HHS, its own internal watchdog flagged over 1,600 fraud and trafficking cases in FY 2024 alone involving sponsors and even parents back in the kids’ home countries.
Only after Grassley demanded answers did ORR scramble to launch a “whole-of-government initiative” in February 2025, years too late for countless children.
The report also admits that ORR relied on 14 “emergency influx” facilities, including one in Pomona, California run by Cherokee Federal to warehouse kids in 2021.
“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. It’s appalling to prioritize speed and optics over the safety and wellbeing of children,” Grassley said in a statement.
“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.”
Read HHS’ responsive letter to Grassley and the HHS data summary HERE.
