Trump claims Biden lost track of over 300,000 migrant children. Here's a fact check.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Notably, around half of this period occurred when Trump was president.
54% : In some cases, that process might be allowed to play out before ICE sends them a court date to begin removal proceedings.
52% : Sometimes there are communication failures between ICE and other government agencies -- including the Department of Health and Human Services, which is entrusted with finding children living arrangements with a shelter or sponsor while they await legal proceedings.
45% : Additionally, they say while some unaccompanied minors have become victims of trafficking or other crimes, the government safely releases most of these children to vetted sponsors -- often a family member -- while their immigration cases play out.Republicans began making claims that more than 300,000 unaccompanied children had been "lost" after the Department of Homeland Security released a report in August which showed that Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, did not serve notices to appear in court to 291,000 children between fiscal year 2019 and May 2024.Additionally, 32,000 unaccompanied children failed to show up for immigration court dates from fiscal year 2019 to 2023.
43% : In response to the DHS report, ICE said delays in issuing court notices to some of 291,000 unaccompanied children may stem from some being eligible to apply for asylum or legal status.
41% : In the cases of the 32,000 minors who missed immigration court dates, experts on immigration law explained that these minors could miss court for numerous reasons, including that they did not receive their notice to appear because ICE did not have their correct address on file.
31% : "We have 325,000 children here during Democrats -- and this was done by Democrats -- who are right now slaves, sex slaves or dead," Trump said.
26% : "Trump repeated similar claims on the campaign trail, and Republicans, including Trump's appointed "border czar" Tom Homan, have echoed similar figures as they call for increased border security.
24% : Trump also claimed in the interview that hundreds of thousands of children who crossed the border unaccompanied are "now slaves, sex slaves or dead."

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