2-year-old girl arrives at US-Mexico border with only a note to deliver her to ‘contact’

Video of the two-year-old girl encountering authorities at the border showed her telling officers that she arrived at the border alone, and said that she was going to her mother and father in the US. When authorities asked her where her parents were, she responded in Spanish, "Estados Unidos" meaning the United States.

The small child could be seen with a yellow slip of paper and had other children around her. According to Texas Department of Public Safety spokesperson Chris Olivarez, the slip of paper had a phone number and a name on it.

The footage follows multiple reports that many unaccompanied minor children (UACs) who have crossed the border have been lost track of since they have come into the United States. The procedure under the Biden-Harris administration has been for Border Patrol as well as other immigration agencies to direct UACs to the Department of Health and Human Services in order to place these UACs with a "sponsor" as the child arrives at the border.

HHS has failed to give out hundreds of thousands of immigration notices to appear, meaning that the UACs will not be redirected to an immigration court once they arrive in the United States. Additionally, around 32,000 UACs who have been given notices to appear have failed to show up for court dates. According to a report from the DHS Inspector General, those UACs "who do not appear for court are considered at higher risk for trafficking, exploitation, or forced labor."

It was reported earlier this year that the Biden-Harris administration’s HHS sent many of these UACs to homes that were using the kids for criminal purposes such as forced labor, as well as trafficking.