Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., is blasting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas after a recent report from the department revealed they have lost track of more than a quarter million unaccompanied children.

DHS has also failed to notify the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement about the missing children, according to the report.

“Your agency’s failure to issue court notices to these children limits the ability to monitor their location and status,” Hawley wrote in a letter to Mayorkas. “In the Inspector General’s words: without such ability, there is thus ‘no assurance that [the children] are safe from trafficking, exploitation, or forced labor.’ “

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