Comments from President Donald Trump at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) last September are gaining renewed attention as his team intensified its fight with the U.N. this week over global migration policy.
Speaking before the 80th Session of the UNGA on September 23, Trump declared that the Biden administration had lost more than 300,000 unaccompanied children who entered the United States, many of whom he said had been “raped, exploited and abused and sold.” He also announced at the time that his administration had already reunited nearly 30,000 of those children with their families abroad.
“The mother and father rushed to the door, and their tears in their eyes, they can’t believe that they’re seeing their son or daughter,” Trump told world leaders. “Any system that results in the mass trafficking of children is inherently evil.”
Those words landed with fresh force this week after the U.S. State Department publicly broke with the United Nations on May 11 over its migration agenda, accusing the U.N. of facilitating mass migration to the United States and condemning U.N. efforts to interfere with deportations of illegal immigrants.
“As the American people suffered under an unprecedented wave of mass migration, the UN was on the ground pipelining migrants to our southern border,” the State Department said via press release.
The administration’s child recovery numbers have only gone up since Trump’s UNGA address. The White House now claims the administration has rescued more than 60,000 migrant children from sex trafficking and child labor – double the figure Trump cited in September.
Since the speech, the Trump team says it has also deported more than 605,000 illegal aliens, while another 1.9 million self-deport out of the U.S. on their own.
The Fight Against The Trafficking Crisis
The Dallas Express has reported extensively on the intersection of mass migration and child trafficking over the past few years. Between 2019 and 2023, more than 519,000 unaccompanied children were encountered at the southern border under the Biden administration – more than double the number recorded under Trump’s first term – and confirmed child trafficking cases at HHS rose from 1,143 in 2021 to 2,226 in 2022.
Texas law enforcement has continued to try to crack down on the trafficking crisis. “Operation Soteria Shield,” a statewide sting involving over 70 agencies, including the FBI, Dallas Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force, resulted in 109 children rescued and 244 suspects arrested back in June of 2025.
On Tuesday morning, Trump reposted an excerpt of the UNGA speech with the following quote: “Any system that results in the mass trafficking of children is inherently evil – yet that is exactly what the globalist migration agenda has done…In America, those days are over.”
