‘Operation Homecoming’ Recovers 32 Missing Children in the Akron, OH, area.
The Molière Team is delighted to award this Celebration to the U. S. Marshals Service for their humane and diligent work in rescuing 32 missing children in the Akron, OH area.
(That includes Summit County, and a tip of the hat also goes to the Akron PD and Summit County Sheriff’s Office.)
While the circumstances of the missing children were not reported in detail, it is surmised that they were related to the pipeline of human trafficking both internal and external to the United States.
We are hopeful that this kind of recognition and positive reinforcement for the heroic efforts of law enforcement will lead to the rescue of more of the unfortunate children who have been caught up in this web of abuse.
Unfortunately, this wonderful action takes place in the context of a much larger (and growing) problem facing children who arrive here across our Southern border.
The 32 rescued children represent a tiny fraction of the 320,000+ (not a misprint!) missing children lost by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), according to this report (this example is one of many turned up by an internet search):
A new Department of Homeland Security report argues Immigration and Customs Enforcement cannot account for unaccompanied immigrant children at the border. The report reveals more than 32,000 unaccompanied children did not attend their immigration hearings between the fiscal years of 2019 and 2023, and nearly 300,000 children that came across the southern border alone never even got a court date.
Unhappily, the companion Molière Citation must go to Secretary Mayorkas and the Department of Homeland Security for their abject failure to protect (or even keep track of the location of) hundreds of thousands of missing children.
The Molière Team hopes for organizations like the U. S Marshals Service and local law enforcement to demonstrate to DHS that it is possible to take positive action to rescue, however many at a time, the missing children who have fallen through the deep cracks in the DHS system.
Secretary Mayorkas and DHS have at least admitted that there is a problem — now, please do something to protect the huge number of children you have let down!