The Biden-Harris administration has lost track of more than 320,000 migrant children who crossed the border without parents, according to a shocking new report.

Untold numbers of the children — who were released into the US to “qualified sponsors” — are now at risk of sex trafficking, forced labor and other forms of exploitation, a Homeland Security Inspector General’s report released Monday said.

As of May 2024, there are 291,000 migrant children who arrived in the US as unaccompanied minors who were set free and never given a date to appear in immigration court — meaning there is no way to track their whereabouts.

That is in addition to the 32,000 children that Immigration and Customs Enforcement authorities released into the US with hearing dates but then failed to show in court, according to the 14-page report — which tracked a period from October 2018 to September 2023.

One federal whistleblower said that she believes many of these vulnerable kids could already be in the hands of criminals and sex traffickers.

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Sextortion is a serious and sometimes deadly crime that has increased more than 300% in the past couple of years – and most of it is happening on Instagram. As this crime spreads on their platform, Instagram’s response is getting worse. By not taking sextortion seriously, Instagram is putting thousands of kids at risk of exploitation, abuse, and even death.

Sextortion is a crime where a predator blackmails a victim over sexual or nude images – for money, more images, or something else of value. Teens are the most common victims of sextortion, and predators often initiate contact by pretending to be a peer and asking to exchange sexual images. The #1 place this happens online: Instagram.

Recent analysis of data from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) by Thorn found Instagram was the #1 platform where sextortionists meet kids, as well as the top platform where these predators threaten to share and actually share the images of the kids they are blackmailing. As the top social media platform for sextortion, Instagram should be investing in preventing and reporting this crime. They’re not.

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Middle- and high-school students across the country are chugging energy drinks like water.

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The Negative Effects of Technology on Children

Adopting a phone-free policy is one of the most impactful steps you can take to enhance student educational outcomes, behavior and well-being.

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First, learn more and all facts about eating disorders. 

WASHINGTON D.C. (August 14, 2024) – Earlier this month, the U.S. House of
Representatives and U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee passed their Fiscal Year 2025 bills.
Appropriations bills are instructions from Congress to federal agencies to tell them how money
should be spent. Appropriations bills allow funding for one year and have significant power to
influence discretionary programs. The bills are led by the U.S. House and U.S. Senate
Appropriations Committees.
For Fiscal Year 2025, the Eating Disorders Coalition for Research, Policy, & Action, in strong
partnership with our Congressional champions on the U.S. House and U.S. Senate
Appropriations Committees, Representatives Robert Aderholt (R-AL-04), Stephanie Bice (R-
OK-05), Sanford Bishop (D-GA-02) Juan Ciscomani (R-AZ-06), Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03),
Andy Harris (R-MD-01), Ashley Hinson (R-IA-02), Marcy Kaptur (D-OH-09), Jake LaTurner
(R-KS-02), Chellie Pingree (D-ME-01), David Valadao (R-CA-22), Bonnie Watson Coleman
(D-NJ-12), and Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), John Boozman (R-AR), Katie Britt (R-AL),
Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Deb Fischer (R-NE), Martin Heinrich (D-NM), John Hoeven (R-
ND), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), and Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) secured strong funding and report
language in the House and Senate FY25 Appropriations Committee bills. A brief summary of the
victories for eating disorders include: read more here.

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Shaheen, Scott Call on Big Tech CEOs to Adopt Programs Cracking Down on the Spread of Non-Consensual Intimate Imagery on Online Platforms.

(Washington, DC) – U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Chair of the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies, and Rick Scott (R-FL) are sending letters to multiple Big Tech CEOs urging them to participate in two voluntary programs to locate and take down non-consensual intimate imagery (NII) on online platforms. The bipartisan group of Senators sent letters to the CEOs of X, Alphabet, Amazon, Match, Zoom, Pinterest, Discord, OpenAI, Twitch, Microsoft and Patreon requesting written confirmation that they intend to adopt the Take It Down and Stop NCII programs, which allow online users to remove explicit images of themselves from digital platforms. The increasing spread of NII remains a dangerous and concerning trend in a rapidly evolving digital world. Last year, the Revenge Porn Helpline reported an alarming 106 percent increase in total reports received compared to the previous year, 34 percent of which represented cases of sextortion.

In part, the Senators wrote: “With one post, NII shared online has the opportunity to ruin the life of an individual, often times young women and girls, and the presence of such on your platform cannot be taken lightly.

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