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Missing migrant children

The disappearance of thousands of migrant children from sponsors' homes, with over 6,300 calls to the Office of Refugee Resettlement's hotline from 2018-2023.

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Jan 28, 2026
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What are the official counts of children separated or detained under Obama, Trump, and Biden, by fiscal year and source agency?

Official counts of by are fragmented across multiple agencies (, , and ’s Office of Refugee Resettlement) and inconsistent in methodology, so a single authoritative fiscal‑year-by‑fiscal‑year table co...

Feb 4, 2026

How many children did ORR house each fiscal year 2009–2024, and what are ORR’s annual referral totals?

A precise year-by-year table of how many children housed each fiscal year from 2009 through 2024 and a full set of cannot be reconstructed from the documents provided here because ORR’s public pages a...