Brokers with Homeland Safety Investigations on Thursday visited the places of work of a number of Washington, D.C.-area nonprofit teams that present authorized providers to unaccompanied migrant children, a number of teams instructed ABC Information.
Representatives of two teams instructed ABC Information that the brokers didn’t current a warrant or a subpoena and had been denied entry. The teams stated it’s unclear what the aim of the visits was.
The nonprofits additionally stated that officers with the Well being and Human Companies Workplace of Inspector Basic had been with the DHS brokers.
“Youngsters in Want of Protection’s U.S. Headquarters in Washington, DC, was amongst a number of U.S. authorized service suppliers visited by Homeland Safety Investigations brokers and the Well being and Human Companies Workplace of Inspector Basic as a part of a coordinated operation focusing on federal subcontractors who present authorized providers to unaccompanied kids,” the group stated in a press release.
“This HSI and HHS OIG operation is in keeping with ongoing administration efforts focusing on nonprofit organizations working within the immigration area and undermining authorized providers for unaccompanied kids searching for security in the US,” stated Wendy Younger, president of Youngsters in Want of Protection.
An official with a 3rd group, Ayuda, instructed ABC Information that HSI brokers additionally didn’t current a warrant or a subpoena, and that workers “directed the brokers to organizational management” and “didn’t present consumer data, client-identifying data, paperwork, or billing data.”
The reported visits by the brokers got here on the identical day that DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin and performing Lawyer Basic Todd Blanche held a press convention asserting efforts to crack down on so-called “supersponsors” who fraudulently search to take custody of unaccompanied migrant kids, as a part of the Trump administration’s ongoing immigration crackdown.
A Homeland Safety Investigations (HSI) agent walks in to the Delaney Corridor Immigration Detention Middle, on June 4, 2026, in Newark, New Jersey.
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In a press release to ABC Information, a spokesperson for DHS didn’t verify the brokers’ appearances on the places of work, however stated the company “is devoted to finding the 450,000 unaccompanied kids that got here in by way of the border underneath the Biden administration.”
Immigration advocates and attorneys have disputed the figures shared by the Trump administration and Republicans about migrant kids. The claims come from a DHS inside watchdog report from 2024 that discovered that ICE had not served notices to seem to greater than 291,000 unaccompanied migrant kids. The inner watchdog warned that within the prior 5 years, greater than 32,000 unaccompanied migrant kids had failed to seem for his or her immigration courtroom hearings, and ICE was “not in a position to account” for all of their whereabouts.
Final 12 months, authorized service suppliers sued the Trump administration after it cut funding to the teams that present authorized illustration to tens of 1000’s of unaccompanied migrant kids.
A choose later ordered the federal government to restore funding to the teams.
