Attorneys general from 22 states claimed that reports they have reviewed indicate that federal authorities lost track of more than 85,000 children at the border in the last two years. They sent a letter to the Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, the secretary of health and human services and the director of the FBI.
The signatories are the attorneys general of Iowa, Mississippi, Utah, Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia.
In the letter, they explained that many of these children have been forced to enter the labor market, where they work exhausting days in dangerous conditions, or have become victims of sex trafficking.
"Senator Chuck Grassley recognized this problem and asked the Department of Homeland Security for a plan more than three months ago, but no plan has been forthcoming. That is unacceptable," the letter explained.
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