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OMISSION: Zero Newscast Coverage for DoJ ‘Super Sponsor’ Indictments
Major news broke today regarding one of the outright horrors of the previous administration: the trafficking of children brought into the United States as unaccompanied minors. But you didn’t hear about it on any of the evening newscasts at ABC, CBS, NBC or PBS.
Others stepped up, though. Watch the related segment below, as aired on NewsNation’s Katie Pavlich Tonight on Thursday, June 11th, 2026:
I won(D)er why the Elitist Media evening news had absolutely no time to cover the "Super Sponsor" indictments announced today by the DoJ. Here's how they were covered on @KatiePavlichNN @KatiePavlich: Welcome back to Kate Pavlich Tonight, where we're learning more about the… pic.twitter.com/2OR35Lz41j
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) June 12, 2026
KATIE PAVLICH: Welcome back to Kate Pavlich Tonight, where we're learning more about the damage done by the Biden administration's open border policy. Specifically, the failure to protect unaccompanied children from being trafficked. Today, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche explained the horrific schemes that enabled- that were enabled by the Biden administration. Here it is.
TODD BLANCHE: Criminals, calling themselves sponsors, trafficked these children's the border usually committing fraud to do so. And oftentimes, the children were abused, assaulted and certainly exploited. In some cases, individuals would sponsor multiple children which require them to lie to government personnel and on government forms claiming they were close relatives when in fact, they were not. They would use fake or stolen identities. And make other false claims during the application process in order to obtain custody of the children.
PAVLICH: This is going on as Biden insisted, insisted that his border policy was compassionate while losing track of hundreds of thousands of children. Joining us now with more on this is NewsNation’s Senior Border Correspondent Ali Bradley. Ali, what can you tell us?
ALI BRADLEY: Yeah, hey, Katie. So federal investigators right now are tracking thousands of suspected “super sponsors” as the Trump administration is working to locate hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied migrant children who were released into the United States under the previous administration. Now the Department of Homeland Security is saying that nearly 146,000 unaccompanied minors have been located since President Trump took office. And officials say those children are part of roughly 450,000 unaccompanied minors who are smuggled across the southern border between 2021 and 2024.
Now DHS says nearly 300,000 children still remain unaccounted for. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin says DHS, ICE, and the Department of Health and Human Services are working together to track down the remaining minors and identify those responsible for trafficking them into the country. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche says many of the children were exploited by criminal networks working with Mexican cartels. He announced charges against 3 Guatemalan nationals living in Ohio accused of acting as so-called “super sponsors” allegedly tied to multiple cases of migrant children being smuggled into the U.S. using fraudulent documents and false claims of family relationships.
The Justice Department says it's now investigating more than 15,500 “super sponsor" cases where individuals sponsored at least 3 unaccompanied migrant children. Secretary Mullin sharply criticized the Biden administration, accusing it of failing to properly vet sponsors and conduct follow-up welfare checks on children after their release. Now Mullin also says that DHS is investigating allegations of widespread abuse and exploitation tied to these unaccompanied minors. He says that finding the remaining children- that is a top priority, Katie.
PAVLICH: Absolutely horrific but glad that they’re working on it.
The most harrowing number is the 15,500: the number of individuals that sponsored more than one child with little vetting, if any at all. And this has been a known issue for a long time. Thank God for the kids that have been recovered, but close to 300,000 still missing is simply awful.
Sadly, there has been no investigative reporting on this from the Elitist Media. Their role in this matter has so far consisted of little more than sticking their collective heads in the sand and pretending there isn’t a problem. But the issue isn’t going away, especially when the HHS Secretary who oversaw this program is now the Democratic nominee for Governor of California.
Shame on ABC, CBS, NBC and PBS for looking away from a politically inconvenient story.