{"ok":true,"report":{"slug":"Ywyqhe8T","publishedAt":1781223945880,"post":{"text":"Under Joe Biden, over 425,000 children were brought into the United States by illegal immigrants.  Under President Donald J. Trump, over 125,000 children have been found.  This alone justifies President Trump’s return to office, and destroys any argument against him.  Tragically, over 300,000 children are still missing.  This is why we need Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP), and thank God they’re being funded now.","uri":"https://www.threads.com/@rexacollins/post/DZdnPdAEo-F","authorHandle":"rexacollins"},"verdict":{"verdict":"Misleading","confidence":85,"summary":"The post mixes real numbers with a fundamentally misleading framing. While hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied children did cross the border during the Biden administration, the claim that 300,000+ are 'missing' misrepresents a DHS Inspector General report: those children were placed with sponsors (often family members) through the Office of Refugee Resettlement, not lost. The 'found' numbers cited for the Trump administration are self-reported claims that also rest on the flawed premise that these children were ever missing.","claims":[{"claim":"Under Joe Biden, over 425,000 children were brought into the United States by illegal immigrants.","assessment":"The number is roughly in the right ballpark — DHS and CBP data show approximately 450,000–550,000+ unaccompanied alien children (UACs) were encountered at the border during the Biden years (FY2021–FY2025). However, the phrasing 'brought into the United States by illegal immigrants' is misleading. These children were apprehended by border authorities and processed through the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), which placed the vast majority with sponsors — typically parents or other family members already in the U.S.","status":"Mixed"},{"claim":"Under President Donald J. Trump, over 125,000 children have been found.","assessment":"Trump administration officials have made similar claims — Tom Homan said 145,000 in January 2026, and Kristi Noem cited the same figure in March 2026. A July 2025 DHS press release said 13,000. The 125,000 figure is within the range of administration claims, but the concept of 'finding' these children is misleading because most were never lost; they were living with sponsors. The administration's 'locating' efforts largely involved contacting sponsors who already had custody.","status":"Mixed"},{"claim":"Tragically, over 300,000 children are still missing.","assessment":"Multiple fact-checks (AP News, CBS News, BBC) have found this claim misrepresents the data. The figure originates from an August 2024 DHS Office of Inspector General report that noted more than 291,000 unaccompanied children had not received a notice to appear in immigration court. These children were not 'missing' — they had been released to sponsors (usually family). The OIG report did note that about 32,000 children failed to appear for scheduled court hearings, and ICE could not account for all of their locations, but conflating the ~291,000 who lacked court notices with 'missing children' is a fundamental misrepresentation.","status":"False"},{"claim":"This is why we need ICE and CBP, and thank God they're being funded now.","assessment":"This is a policy opinion and advocacy statement, not a verifiable factual claim. Whether ICE and CBP 'need' to exist and whether they are 'being funded now' are matters of political opinion and budgetary detail not addressed by the sources consulted.","status":"Unsupported"}],"caveats":"The exact number of unaccompanied children encountered varies by fiscal year and source. The Trump administration's 'located' figures are self-reported and have not been independently audited. Reasonable people may disagree on immigration policy, but the '300,000 missing' claim has been repeatedly debunked by fact-checkers across the political spectrum as a misreading of the DHS OIG report.","sources":[{"title":"FACT FOCUS: Claims that more than 300,000 migrant children are missing lack context","url":"https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-misinformation-migrant-children-missing-7ab0cea2fd2238346197429e952baa8b"},{"title":"Trump claims Biden lost track of over 300,000 migrant children ...","url":"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-claims-biden-lost-300000-migrant-children-fact-check"},{"title":"Are 300,000 undocumented immigrant children missing in the US?","url":"https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj0jlre7mymo"},{"title":"Has the US government found 145,000 'lost' migrant children? Fact-checking Kristi Noem","url":"https://minnesotareformer.com/2026/03/09/has-the-us-government-found-145000-lost-migrant-children-fact-checking-kristi-noem"},{"title":"DHS Leads Efforts to Rescue Child Victims of Sex and Labor Trafficking","url":"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/07/25/dhs-leads-efforts-rescue-child-victims-sex-and-labor-trafficking"},{"title":"Oversight Agency Says 32,000 Unaccompanied Children Are ...","url":"https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/are-32000-unaccompanied-children-missing"}]},"communityNote":"Misleading. The claim that 300,000 migrant children are missing misrepresents a DHS report. Those children were placed with sponsors, often family, and are not lost. While hundreds of thousands were encountered at the border, they were processed and released to sponsors, not secretly brought in.","sourceUrl":"https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-misinformation-migrant-children-missing-7ab0cea2fd2238346197429e952baa8b"}}