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John Fabbricatore discusses the failures of the Biden administration in vetting sponsors for unaccompanied minors and contrasts it with the Trump administration's efforts to locate missing children.

Former senior Health and Human Services advisor and ICE official John Fabbricatore says the Biden administration failed to vet sponsors for unaccompanied minors, leading to over 300,000 children missing from HHS rolls, 65,000 unanswered hotline calls, thousands of trafficking allegations, and dozens of deceased children later identified. Fabbricatore describes his career in INS/ICE and says Trump-era HHS leadership prioritized locating children, reporting about 140,000 found and a faster response process for new tips. This, and more, on this week’s edition of “The Signal Sitdown" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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