The Department of Homeland Security is going on the offense amid growing criticism of how it has neglected tens of thousands of unaccompanied migrant children at the border.
The DHS published a fact sheet on its website Wednesday evening highlighting the departmentwide work its federal law enforcement officers and agents have done over the past year to rescue child sex abuse victims and to prosecute adult offenders.
In that time, the federal government lost track of 85,000 immigrant children after their release, only to be found in forced labor and sex work, according to an April report by the New York Times. Without mentioning the New York Times report, DHS said its agencies, including the Secret Service, Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations, and the Science and Technology Directorate, identified or rescued 1,170 child victims of exploitation and abuse.
Through polygraph testing of online offenders, Secret Service officers uncovered more than 1,400 sexual assaults and 90 victims of sexual abuse, according to DHS.
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