Why Nobody Is Talking About the 300,000 Missing Migrant Children

In a country where even cereal boxes are politicized, you’d think the disappearance of over 300,000 migrant childrenwould spark national outrage. But instead of a moral reckoning, we get collective silence. No marches. No press conferences. No hashtags. Why? Because telling the truth would offend the narrative too many people are emotionally and politically invested in.

If 300,000 children disappeared from gated communities in Connecticut or private academies in California, the FBI would be involved, the media would be in crisis mode, and Hollywood would already be filming the dramatization. But when it’s vulnerable, brown, undocumented children—some trafficked, others placed with strangers, many never heard from again—our country looks the other way.

According to multiple federal audits and immigration court records, over 291,000 unaccompanied minors were released without even being given a date to appear in immigration court (TRAC Reports, 2025). More than 85,000 children are now completely unreachable by the Department of Health and Human Services (New York Times, 2023). Nearly 32,000 never showed up for their scheduled hearings (AP Fact Check, 2024).

Let’s be clear: we don’t know where these children are. And yet nobody in power seems to care enough to find out.

Consider this: the same activists and politicians who protest the enforcement of immigration laws are quick to defend the rights of 1.4 million individuals with final deportation orders—people who have exhausted all due process and still refuse to leave (Washington Post, April 2025). There are lawsuits. Lobbying campaigns. “Abolish ICE” chants. Presidential platforms built on stopping deportations.

But when it comes to 300,000 missing children—many underage, many trafficked, many likely in dangerous situations—those same voices are eerily silent. No rallies. No viral videos. No congressional sit-ins. Selective outrage isn’t justice—it’s theater.

Where is New York Attorney General Letitia “Tish” James? She’s spent years chasing headlines—from Donald Trump’s finances to social media grandstanding about reproductive rights. But she hasn’t said a single word about the thousands of migrant children missing right here in New York.

There’s been no investigation from her office. No call to examine fake sponsors. No demand for oversight. Apparently, when there’s no political score to settle, there’s no incentive to care.

And it’s not just her. Local DAs, federal prosecutors, and so-called progressive law enforcement leaders across the country have all turned a blind eye. They claim to fight for the vulnerable, but when the victims are undocumented children—children with no vote and no voice—they vanish from the agenda just like they vanished from the system.

Ironically, the only prominent Democrat to raise the alarm has been New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who publicly criticized the Biden administration for losing track of migrant children and burdening cities with a crisis of federal origin (Politico, 2023). He warned it would “destroy New York City.” You’d expect the media to follow up. Maybe even investigate. But instead?

Crickets.

Why? Because Adams violated the unspoken rule: you’re not allowed to tell the truth if it makes open-border policy look bad.

Thomas Sowell once said, “There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.” That’s the point most Americans miss.

Yes, you can have an open-door immigration policy. Yes, you can claim to be compassionate. But the trade-off—the actual result—has been missing children, human trafficking, and mass exploitation.

A nation that can’t even track the children it “rescues” is not noble. It is negligent. Compassion without competence is cruelty. And this cruelty is being done in your name.

So the question isn’t just Where are the children?

It’s also: Where are the prosecutors? Where are the activists? Where are the cameras? Where is the accountability?

And most damning of all: Why are 1.4 million people with final deportation orders more protected by this system than the missing children who were supposed to be cared for?

Until someone is forced to answer that, don’t talk to me about justice. Not when it disappears faster than the children do.

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SOURCES:

• TRAC Immigration Court Report, Syracuse University (2025): https://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/692/
• New York Times – Alone and Exploited, Migrant Children Work Brutal Jobs Across the U.S. (2023): https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/17/us/migrant-children-work-exploitation.html
• Associated Press Fact Check – Are 85,000 Migrant Children Really “Missing”? (2024): https://apnews.com/article/migrant-children-missing-biden-administration-4aa0e7f7dc4f737edb3c446dc8a2dffe
• Washington Post – Trump Plots Mass Deportation Operation Targeting 1 Million People (April 2025): https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/04/12/one-million-deportations-goal/
• Politico – Eric Adams Says Migrant Crisis Will ‘Destroy’ New York City (2023): https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/06/eric-adams-migrant-crisis-new-york-00113882

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