Up to 323,000 Migrant Children Missing in US, DHS Watchdog Finds Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials are unsure of the whereabouts of at least 32,000 migrant children in the U S , a report from the Department of Homeland Security’s internal watchdog found The Details: “As of May 2024, ICE had not served [court dates to] more than 291,000 UCs who therefore do not yet have an immigration court date,” the report states
More and More People Missing From Official Census Data They say a “quiet crisis” is unfolding with census data not being published due to concerns about declining response rates and the accuracy of data In a paper published in Science, researchers from the University of Southampton and the Columbia Climate School point to a “perfect storm” of disruptions from the COVID-19 pandemic
UN Expert Urges States to Address Migrant Disappearances as a Human . . . Geneva: Governments must act swiftly and collectively to prevent the increasing number of migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers who go missing, including those subjected to enforced disappearance, a UN human rights expert warned the Human Rights Council on Friday Gehad Madi, the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, presented his latest report to the Council during its 59th
Disappearing people: A global demographic data crisis . . . - Science Many countries were forced to shift from traditional house-to-house interviews to alternative data sources and mixed methods, including online and phone responses, and extended timelines for data collection UN, “2020 and 2030 World Population and Housing Census Programmes”, Report of the Secretary General to the UN Statistical
FACT FOCUS: Claims that more than 300,000 migrant children are missing . . . But experts say it is a stretch to refer to roughly 300,000 children as “lost” or “missing ” “This is not a ‘missing kids’ problem; it’s a ‘missing paperwork’ problem,” Jonathan Beier, associate director of research and evaluation for the Acacia Center for Justice’s Unaccompanied Children Program, wrote in an email
Claim about missing migrant children misleading, experts say The report did not say the children were missing Experts said describing them that way is misleading As President Donald Trump’s administration increased deportation efforts in its first week
‘We all have someone missing’: Families of the thousands . . . - UN News The Independent Institution on Missing Persons in the Syrian Arab Republic (IIMP) - established by the UN General Assembly in June 2023 The only entity specifically established to address missing persons in Syria, it offers to support these efforts by providing specialized technical expertise in several areas to help determine the fate and whereabouts of all missing persons
Accountability for missing persons is ‘crucial’: UN human rights chief In February, the institution’s head visited Damascus and met dozens of families – some of whom were being asked about their missing loved ones for the first time ever ‘Our common humanity demands it’ Concluding his remarks, Mr Türk reaffirmed the commitment of his Office to support victims and help States meet their obligations
The People Being Disappeared by ICE in Los Angeles The two were part of the Unión del Barrio community patrol, whose aim is to monitor—and warn the neighborhood about—the presence of federal agents During the past two weeks, the patrol had