“Over 300,000” unaccompanied migrant children have been released into the United States over the past three years, rather than returned to their home countries, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra testified Wednesday in Congress.

Becerra quoted the numbers while speaking to the Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Subcommittee about his department’s budget for 2025, when he was asked about the numbers of children released, including those going to unrelated adults, reports The Washington Examiner.

However, he would not provide a number when Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., asked him how many of the children the HHS followed up on after they were released to sponsors.

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