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Government office within the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), that offers support for resettled refugees
Public claims that “300,000 children went missing under Biden” trace to a DHS Office of Inspector General audit and political statements but lack the simple meaning of “missing” — the OIG report talli...
Claims that President Barack Obama “sent” or “resettled” massive numbers of immigrants — especially 70,000 Somalis to Minnesota or 80,000 Muslims to Michigan — are false according to multiple fact‑che...
Photographs from 2014 show children behind chain‑link fencing at U.S. border processing sites during the , and officials at the time described chain‑link partitions or fenced enclosures used to hold m...
Claims that large numbers of immigrant children “went missing” during the Barack Obama presidency require careful framing: reporting shows hundreds to tens of thousands of unaccompanied children passe...
Available reporting shows competing figures and claims about how many unaccompanied children have been "rescued" or "located" since 2025 began; some pro‑administration releases and sympathetic outlets...
The available materials do not provide a definitive, consolidated count of , and existing reports focus on related but distinct populations and problems—missing migrant children, migrant deaths, and d...
A 15‑year‑old Houston boy, identified in reporting as Emmanuel (or Emanuel) Gonzalez‑Garcia, who is described by family and advocates as autistic or having significant learning disabilities, was taken...
Public records, investigative reporting and oversight reviews show that when in U.S. immigration-related facilities the actors involved are facility staff — employees, contract guards, medical staff, ...
The reporting contains multiple, conflicting tallies: a Biden-era total of hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied children crossing since 2019 is widely cited, while the Trump administration and allie...
The available materials do not provide a single, precise count of how many children have been detained by ICE in recent years; instead they present — ICE detention, Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR...
Federal refugee resettlement in the 1990s–2000s was run by a mix of U.S. government programs and private “VOLAG” sponsors: the federal government processed admissions and funded initial assistance whi...
Claims about how many unaccompanied migrant children were "lost" under the Biden administration vary widely in partisan and official accounts; congressional and watchdog reporting cites figures rangin...
ICE detainees are held in a sprawling network of federal, county, and privately operated facilities across the United States, with in many states . Recent tallies show tens of thousands in custody and...
Available reporting and official bios say Ilhan Omar was born in Somalia, fled to a Kenyan refugee camp, arrived in the U.S. in March 1995 as a refugee, and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2000; ...
As of the most recent operational snapshot available to reviewers, the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) averaged about , with a system capacity of roughly and an average occupancy near ; this numb...
The claim that “ICE has found the children they lost 2025” is not supported as a single, verifiable fact; reporting from 2025 shows a mix of , with no definitive, system-wide confirmation that all or ...
Minnesota’s refugee resettlement funding is a mix of federal per-capita payments to local resettlement agencies and federal block grants and refugee-specific service dollars administered through the s...
Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota (LSS/MN) is a large, century‑old social‑service nonprofit serving all 87 Minnesota counties with over 2,500 staff; it offers programs from refugee resettlement to ...
Family separations remain a documented and ongoing consequence of U.S. immigration enforcement: advocacy groups counted roughly 2,654 children initially identified as possibly separated during the 201...
Publicly available reporting and government analyses show that far more people were removed from the during than during , but none of the provided sources supply a reliable, comparable count specifica...