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30 September
7:35 pm

you were responsible for four hundred and seventy nine thousand unaccompanied migrant children

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Steve Hilton, at California Governor General Election Debate (CNN)

7:35 pm
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Why we checked itSpecific figure of 479,000 unaccompanied migrant children attributed to the opponent's tenure as HHS secretary — verifiable against official records
What we foundThe 479,000 figure is slightly higher than what most authoritative sources record: official HHS data shows 468,736 children in care from October 2020–September 2024, and ORR referral data by fiscal year totals approximately 469,892; the closest single source to the specific figure is an ORR adviser's count of 478,886.
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