Missing Children: Charlie Kirk on the Border Crisis

Showing 9 Missing Children videos from Charlie Kirk's video collection.

Missing children became a central talking point in Charlie Kirk's border security commentary during the 2024 election cycle. At a campaign rally in Arizona, JD Vance cited a figure of 320,000 missing children under the Biden-Harris administration's border policies, framing the number alongside fentanyl-laced candy reaching American communities as evidence that the crisis reflected policy choices rather than accidents. Kirk repeated similar figures in campus debates, pressing students who supported Kamala Harris to explain how she reconciled her stated concern for children with her record overseeing border policy as vice president. After the 2024 election, incoming border czar Tom Homan expanded the figure to roughly 300,000 missing migrant children in remarks to Phoenix residents, describing plans to coordinate federal agencies specifically to locate and rescue them as part of a broader enforcement strategy that would also target public-safety threats and challenge sanctuary city policies. Television host Dr. Phil McGraw later described accompanying Homan and ICE agents during enforcement operations in Chicago, characterizing the targets as convicted criminals rather than indiscriminate sweeps, and describing sanctuary city rules that he said forced agents into lengthy manual tracking of individuals who could otherwise have been deported directly from jail custody.