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Trump Launches New Program to Stop Missing Foster Children from Being Trafficked

Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—President Donald Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services has launched a new program to locate missing foster children, The Daily Signal can first report.

The agency’s Administration of Children and Families has piloted a new program in Mississippi to rescue foster children before they are trafficked. About 60% of all child sex trafficking victims have spent time in the child welfare system. About 23,000 kids went missing while in foster care in 2024.

“One of the largest pipelines to domestic trafficking is vulnerable youth who have experienced foster care,” Assistant Secretary of Health for the Administration of Children and Families Alex Adams told The Daily Signal in an interview. “Our primary goal is to prevent that from happening.”

The new program, Operation Hope, has already located 13 missing foster children in the Magnolia State and brought them to safety. In........

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