Week 91 of the Trump Administration is flying into the future with rallies, mounting accomplishments, an SBA Small War Plants Commission, U.S. Treasury/IMF activity, honor for First Responders, Election Fraud arrests, child rescue efforts, Russia/Ukraine developments, CMS Anti-Fraud Force findings, and flying Tesla Roadster Cars. Pressure is revving up on lawmakers. The House passed Rep Thomas Massie’s House Resolution to force the release of congressional sexual-misconduct settlement records to the public. Another massive 21 billion dollar investment in America’s soaring future was announced by GlobalFoundaries and the Department of Commerce to build 2 giant new semiconductor manufacturing plants in New York. The deal will bring 27,000 high paying construction and supply chain jobs and over 1,000 additional highly skilled manufacturing jobs in New York.
The U.S. Treasury Department announced more than $1.21 billion in penalties against Bank of America which has been grounded for its failures in anti-money-laundering, the third largest penalty imposed in Treasury history. Specifically, it failed to report on time more than $5 billion in suspicious transactions. Of that amount, more than $1 billion involved priority national-security and illicit-finance risks, including transactions linked to Chinese money-laundering and suspicious transactions in trade-based money laundering and fraud surrounding the U.S. southwest border.
HSI has committed to arresting illegal noncitizen voters in American elections and this week accelerated with announcements. This is another substantiation for the SAVE America Act to be passed, which would require the citizenship of all new voters to be verified and for voter rolls to be checked and cleaned regularly. There was also a big ACT Blue investigation into money being donated to the Democratic party in people’s names that did not donate. The detail that will hit the thrusters and send the whole investigation into hyperspeed, is how those phantom donations connect back to Ukraine.
Tensions mounted this week between President Trump and Ukrainian President Zelenskyy following the U.S. deal with Russia for ~2.25+ million barrels of Russian diesel fuel for the U.S. and global markets, with additional sanctions relief. Zelenskyy called President Trump “weak” for making the deal with his adversary, President Trump immediately fired back how it is time for Ukraine to get a new President, and questioned why U.S. money aid to Ukraine disappeared and why Ukraine elections have been frozen. (see my article here) President Zelenskyy proceeded to attack Russian oil refineries and the U.S. reportedly shut down the Starshield systems that Ukraine uses to control Ukrainian drones. President Trump has explained that with all the war, and all the dead bodies, and rejection of all attempts to make Peace, President Zelensky has “destroyed” Ukraine.
The FBI and HSI’s work taking down scam compounds blasted all speed records this week. Scam compounds, also called scam centers are run in largely Southeast Asia, the Middle East, or Africa by transnational crime organizations with workers, frequently trafficking victims forced to work under threats of violence. They prey on Americans in various ways, taking advantage of them and stealing. This weeks high RPM results are from a coordinated “Joint Disruption Week” focused on West African scam networks, part of the broader FBI-led Operation Blackout. They took down more than 3.7 million fraudulent social-media accounts, pages, and groups. $11 million in freezable funds were earmarked. Over 120 trafficked workers, and more than 100 Americans victimized. The bottom line is that Americans are more safe because these scam center networks have been closed down.
The FBI also announced a significant development in its ongoing campaign against the 764 network—a horrible online group that targets vulnerable children through encrypted platforms, coercing them into producing sexual abuse material, self-harm, animal cruelty, and other extreme content for status within the group. A core leader pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiracy to sexually exploit a child; he faces 15–30 years in prison. FBI Director Kash Patel described the plea as the latest victory in dismantling the network, noting a nearly 500% increase in 764-related arrests the previous year with more than 350 active investigations nationwide. The broader FBI and HSTF multi-agency efforts (including with HSI and local partners) continue to focus on identifying and recovering exploited or missing children through task-force operations, victim identification, and predator arrests, with recent examples including multi-agency recoveries of dozens of missing children and teens in coordinated actions such as those on Long Island. Officials emphasize that many specific rescues remain non-public until completed for operational security. Please support these heroes. They are putting their lives on the line every day.
The CMS anti-fraud task force announced its findings on improper Obamacare subsidies. They found that taxpayers were paying for duplicate coverage for people that have died. Improper enrollments of people who were not even aware they had been enrolled, with 189,000 subsidized Obamacare enrollments when the enrollee already had Medicare, Medicaid or CHIP coverage. This action is estimated to prevent about $738 million in improper payments this year alone and over $1.5 billion annually. The bottom line is Dr. Oz wants us to know that our federal programs and subsidies are now being truly safeguarded for those who truly need them, and not for scammers or fraudsters.
Week 91 gave us many surprising kick-twists. Who would have thought that we would see a Tesla Roadster lift up vertically surge forward, do a flip in mid air, clearing sever obstacles, including the cab of a tractor-trailer semi, and land soft as butter! This is truly the new time of the Golden Age. To continue this journey to greatness, just make sure you vote this mid-term election and make sure you vote red. Socialism and Communism is the losing way to a dark time. Listen to Maria Corina Machado- Vote RED- Stay on the Path to a better, brighter future. Let’s see what all else happened this week:
To All Voters: Heed This Warning- DO NOT VOTE FOR SOCIALISM AND COMMUNISM
10172026 Trump Rally in Highland Heights, KY
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10152026 President Trump Honors First Responders in the Rose Garden and First Responders honor President Trump
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10132026 Trump Rally in Wasilla, Alaska
10122026 Trump Rally in Youngstown, Ohio
10132026 White House Press Briefing
Katie Zacharia: “Since taking office, the Trump Administration has uncovered over $260 billion of fraud, stopped $72 billion of fraud annually through administrative actions, and recovered $58.9 billion through indictments, settlements, and civil monetary penalties.”
“Good morning.
I am so honored to work for President Trump and the American people as the new White House Press Secretary. I want to thank President Trump for his trust that he has placed in me. I have wanted to work for him for a very long time. I’m looking forward to working with each of you as well, especially as we are in the middle of the midterm blitz with energy and excitement never seen before in the history of midterms, thanks to President Trump.
Just look no further than last night in Youngstown, Ohio, where President Trump delivered another blockbuster rally. The arena was overflowing with enthusiasm as thousands came out to support President Trump, as well as special guest Jake Paul and football legend John Gruden. The President also announced the Department of War has officially selected Cleveland, Ohio as the new home for the U.S. Navy’s Submarine Component Repair Center. This massive facility will manufacture, repair, and maintain key parts for virtually all new and existing submarines.
Thanks to President Trump, we are once again bringing back American energy dominance because energy security is national security. President Trump secured the biggest oil deal in world history, delivering the U.S. majority control of more than 65 billion barrels of proven oil reserves in Venezuela. He had a historic one-day war and now we have a booming economy and a great relationship with Venezuela. The U.S. achieved record domestic oil and gas production in 2025 and record crude and petroleum product exports in 2026.
President Trump has used the power of tariffs to stop China from producing fentanyl precursor chemicals.
President Trump is the first president in modern history to actually lower prescription drug prices, delivering the biggest drop in 63 years. President Trump has created more than 1 million private sector jobs in his second term, including nearly 112,000 factory construction jobs and 72,000 manufacturing jobs this year alone.
This is a president and an administration that is looking out for you, the American people, and I’m thrilled to officially be part of this incredible journey together.
And with that, I will take your questions.”
She confirmed: “We have asked Ambassador Guilfoyle to resign. She has been a wonderful asset to the team and we wish her well.”
She said she would continue and expand the “new media seat” started under her predecessor Karoline Leavitt.
She spoke briefly about her family (four children) and noted President Trump’s support for working parents.
She ended the briefing early, saying President Trump was heading to Marine One for a trip to Alaska and that reporters could ask him questions there.
Following this Press Briefing, the media attacked and Katie stepped down.
“Katie’s been treated very badly by the media, very, very badly, very unfairly, I think. And I just spoke to her about it. I said, “Katie, is this for you? Because you know she’s been treated very rough, and she’s a nice person, very nice person.” -POTUS
THE MEDIA
ECONOMY AND GROWTH
SBA Small War Plants Commission
Eventful Q4 Expected Ahead
U.S. Treasury and the IMF World Bank
Debt Clock Secret Windows
Tesla Flip
Elon says that flying Tesla Roadster cars will enter production in 2028.
More Investment in America’s Manufacturing Boom
American Greatness
ENERGY
Energy Grid Blackout
FBI Operation Blackout
Scam Call Centers all over the world that preyed on Americans are being taken out.
Scam Centers: These aren’t random scammers sitting behind laptops. They built fortified compounds, trafficked human beings, forced slave labor, and constructed an international fraud machine targeting Americans. So we’re dismantling the machine. -FBI Director Kash Patel
TECH
Super Intelligence
2027 Presidential SuperIntelligence Challenge
U.S. Tech Force
DATA CENTER POSITIVES
LAW AND ORDER AND INVESTIGATIONS
H.Res 1399 Passed: 420-0
The House just passed Rep Thomas Massie’s resolution to force the release of the names of Congressmen who used the Congressional slush funds to pay out for sexual misconduct settlements…. 420-0. H.Res. 1399 is a House resolution (not a bill) that directs the House Ethics Committee and the Office of Congressional Workplace Rights to preserve and publicly release specific records on sexual misconduct settlements paid with taxpayer funds. Because it only concerns House business and internal House entities, it becomes effective upon House passage and does not require Senate approval or presidential action.
U.S. Treasury Levies $1.21 Billion in Penalties on Bank of America for Violations of Anti-Money-Laundering Laws
The Vice President’s Pledge to Protect Americans from Fraud
He is asking lawmakers to sign the pledge.
Justice for the American Worker
FBI
FBI Labs Clear 1.8 Mil DNA Sample Backlog
FBI Taking Down Scam Compounds
FBI Taking down the 764 Network
FBI Rescuing Children
Official DOJ and FBI reports on efforts like Operation Iron Pursuit show FBI leadership with all 56 field offices, U.S. Attorneys’ offices, state and local agencies, HSI, U.S. Marshals, Victim Services, and partners such as NCMEC.
Recent New York recoveries involved nearly 40 agencies. Homeland Security Task Forces add nationwide coordination across 20-plus federal agencies and 440 state/local partners, including child trafficking cases.
How long has this problem of child trafficking been around? How were we misled, misinformed and duped? Well, ten years ago it was Pizzagate, and with Democrats in office it turned into Open Borders resulting in Unaccompanied Minors smuggled into our country by cartel and gang members and put into the hands of traffickers and unvetted sponsors by Biden’s HHS.
The Children… all children, our children, the children of the world… deserve truth and justice.
How are they correcting the wrongs being done to children? Who are the ones out front and center driving this effort to find the missing children?
Support HSTF
HSTF is co-led by FBI and HSI with a nationwide network of 30 regional task forces. It prioritizes dismantling human trafficking and smuggling networks, especially those involving children, as one of its core threat categories. Specific named rescue operations are generally not announced in advance for operational security. Public reports confirm HSTF is producing results. Examples include a July 2026 LA operation that arrested 10 gang members on sex trafficking charges and identified at least 51 victims, a January surge with 507 arrests and 257 victims identified (including 27 children), and recent actions such as 144 arrests in Las Vegas Operation Loaded Dice with major seizures. Details typically emerge after operations conclude for security reasons.
Fraud Committed to Smuggled Unaccompanied Minor Children through Biden’s Open Borders
According to the official HHS ORR memorandum, the six forms of fraud in the prior UAC Program were: fraudulent identity documents (most common, including fake IDs, licenses, passports, birth certificates); manipulated photographs; address fraud; fingerprint fraud; sponsors failing to disclose all household members; and UACs misrepresenting their age. These enabled releases to unvetted sponsors, sometimes resulting in abuse or worse.
HHS under Sec. RFK Jr. strengthened sponsor vetting with mandatory household fingerprints, biometrics, and ID checks starting in 2025, and cleared a 65,000-report backlog. ORR has located roughly 157,000 previously released children and continues searching for over 85,000 more. FBI Director Kash Patel leads intensified efforts locating missing kids and arresting thousands of predators and traffickers. DOJ pursues related prosecutions.
If it wasn’t for President Trump, none of those children would be reunited with their families. FBI reports under Director Patel show strong results on this front. Operations have yielded thousands of predator and trafficker arrests (with notable percentage increases over prior periods), thousands of children located or rescued, millions of online predator accounts dismantled, and ongoing weekly successes like dozens of missing kids recovered in recent multi-agency efforts. But President Trump has pushed for completion, for the whole entire operation to go the distance and get the job done.
How is the DoJ contributing to this? What is Logan’s Law and how will it help?
Logan’s Law is a proposed bill for a public national registry of violent offenders (force/threat convictions, 180+ day sentences). It boosts data sharing and accountability. AG Blanche backs it to keep repeat felons off streets by closing record gaps. Logan’s Law creates a national public registry of violent offenders (force/threat convictions over 180 days) and mandates better interstate/federal data sharing on fingerprints and records. This closes gaps that hinder tracking repeat offenders. FBI Director Patel has called it critical for the data the Bureau relies on. HSTFs (FBI-HSI co-led) target trafficking and child exploitation among other transnational crimes, so fuller records would aid their work identifying predators with violent histories.
Formed under EO 14159 in January 2025 and fully operational by September, HSTFs (FBI-HSI co-led, 30 regional + 29 satellite offices) reported major results. The 2025 September Surge alone yielded 3,266 arrests and over 91 metric tons of narcotics seized. 2026 operations continue with large takedowns, including 144 arrests and 1,124 kg drugs in Las Vegas, multi-kilogram fentanyl seizures, 1,500+ firearms recovered, lengthy sentences, and extraditions targeting cartels, gangs, trafficking, and related crimes.
Their EO mandate also prioritizes child trafficking cases specifically, with ongoing multi-agency rescues and predator takedowns beyond the drug/gun stats. Federal agencies including the FBI, HSI, and US Marshals conduct continuous investigations and operations against child trafficking and exploitation networks. Many remain non-public by design until arrests or rescues occur, to protect ongoing work. Recent public examples and official statements confirm this priority continues through task forces, victim identification, and targeted enforcement.
Taxpayers should not pay for duplicate coverage or subsidies for people who have died.
HHS/CMS is identifying improper enrollments (including dual Medicare/Medicaid/CHIP and deceased individuals) and stopping those payments.
In 2026, CMS found 189,000 subsidized Obamacare enrollments involving duplicate Medicare, Medicaid, or CHIP coverage, or deceased people, and removed the improper subsidies.
This action is estimated to prevent about $738 million in improper payments this year alone (over $1.5 billion annualized), with expectations of blocking more than one million months of improperly subsidized coverage by year-end.
The goal is to enforce eligibility rules, follow the evidence, correct mistakes, pursue fraud, and ensure federal dollars support the people the programs were intended to serve rather than improper or duplicate coverage
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Dr Oz: “The Biden Administration abandoned the safeguards meant to prevent duplicate taxpayer-subsidized health insurance enrollments. The Trump Administration found nearly 200,000 duplicate enrollments — and we eliminated them, saving taxpayers about $1.5B per year.”
Every Patient Knowing the Cost of Medical Treatment Up Front: Priceless
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Child trafficking has been a serious problem, yet the public is largely unaware. How were so many people misled about its scale? A decade ago, concerns were raised about “Pizzagate” were largely dismissed. But then years of Democrat policiesallowed children to be smuggled into our country where they were placed with unvetted sponsors, many of whom were later identified as cartel and criminal gang traffickers, and the children were sold into various forms of slavery, including the worst kind. President Trump has been outspoken against p*dophilia and human trafficking for decades. He has been committed to ending the threat to children and making this country safer for them. Those are not just words. he has taken steps that are having proven results. How is his Administration correcting the wrongs being done to children? Who are the ones out front and center driving this effort to find the missing children?
FBI Rescuing Children
Official DOJ and FBI reports, including those related to Operation Iron Pursuit, describe coordinated work across all 56 FBI field offices, U.S. Attorneys’ offices, state and local agencies, HSI, the U.S. Marshals Service, Victim Services, and partners such as the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC). Recent recoveries in New York involved nearly 40 agencies. Homeland Security Task Forces (HSTFs) provide additional nationwide coordination across more than 20 federal agencies and 440 state and local partners, with child trafficking among the priority categories.
FBI Taking down the 764 Network
How We Got Here
How long has child trafficking been a serious problem, and how were so many people misled about its scale? A decade ago, concerns raised under the “Pizzagate” label were largely dismissed. Under subsequent Democratic administrations, open-border policies contributed to large numbers of unaccompanied minors being smuggled into the country by cartel and gang members and then released to traffickers or unvetted sponsors through the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
All children—our children and the children of the world—deserve truth and justice.
How are they correcting the wrongs being done to children? Who are the ones out front and center driving this effort to find the missing children?
Current Efforts to Correct the Wrongs
Who is leading the push to locate missing children? Homeland Security Task Forces, co-led by the FBI and HSI, operate a nationwide network of 30 regional task forces. They prioritize dismantling human trafficking and smuggling networks, especially those involving children. Specific rescue operations are generally not announced in advance for operational security, but public reports show results. Examples include a July 2026 Los Angeles operation that arrested 10 gang members on sex-trafficking charges and identified at least 51 victims; a January surge with 507 arrests and 257 victims identified (including 27 children); and recent actions such as 144 arrests in the Las Vegas “Operation Loaded Dice,” accompanied by major seizures. Details typically emerge after operations conclude.
Officials describe the process of locating and rescuing missing and unaccompanied children as a multi-agency effort involving welfare checks, sponsor investigations, intelligence sharing, task-force operations, victim-identification work with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) and local partners, and targeted enforcement against traffickers and smugglers. Many specific rescues remain non-public until completed for operational security. Progress reports focus on the numbers of children located, arrests of predators and traffickers, and improved sponsor vetting under the current administration. Primary official channels for the latest information include the DOJ, DHS/HSI, FBI, and HHS websites and their social media accounts, with the June 11, 2026 DOJ-DHS-HHS press conference, the October 1, 2026 HHS release on fraud in the prior Unaccompanied Alien Children program, and recent operations such as the Long Island Missing Children Recovery Operation among the most direct public explanations of these efforts.
Fraud in the Prior Unaccompanied Minor System
According to an official HHS Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) memorandum, six common forms of fraud existed in the prior Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) program: fraudulent identity documents (the most common, including fake IDs, licenses, passports, and birth certificates); manipulated photographs; address fraud; fingerprint fraud; sponsors failing to disclose all household members; and children misrepresenting their age. These practices enabled releases to unvetted sponsors and, in some cases, led to abuse or worse.
Under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., HHS strengthened sponsor vetting beginning in 2025 with mandatory household fingerprints, biometrics, and ID checks. It also cleared a 65,000-report backlog. ORR has located roughly 157,000 previously released children and continues searching for more than 85,000 others. FBI Director Kash Patel has overseen intensified efforts to locate missing children and arrest thousands of predators and traffickers. The Department of Justice continues related prosecutions.
If not for the change in administration under President Trump, many of these children would not have been reunited with their families. FBI reports under Director Patel cite thousands of predator and trafficker arrests (with notable increases over prior periods), thousands of children located or rescued, millions of online predator accounts dismantled, and ongoing multi-agency recoveries of dozens of missing children in recent weeks. The administration has emphasized completing the full effort.
How is the DoJ contributing to this? What is Logan’s Law and how will it help?
Supporting Tools: Logan’s Law and HSTF Results
Logan’s Law is a proposed bill that would create a public national registry of violent offenders (those with force-or-threat convictions resulting in sentences of 180 days or more). It would improve data sharing and accountability. Attorney General Pam Bondi’s team, including Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, has supported the concept as a way to keep repeat offenders off the streets by closing record gaps. The measure would mandate better interstate and federal sharing of fingerprints and records. FBI Director Patel has described fuller data access as critical to the Bureau’s work. Because HSTFs (FBI-HSI co-led) target trafficking and child exploitation among other transnational crimes, improved records would help identify predators with violent histories.
Formed under Executive Order 14159 in January 2025 and fully operational by September of that year, the HSTFs (30 regional plus 29 satellite offices) have reported substantial results. The September 2025 surge alone produced 3,266 arrests and the seizure of more than 91 metric tons of narcotics. 2026 operations have continued with large takedowns, including 144 arrests and 1,124 kg of drugs in Las Vegas, multi-kilogram fentanyl seizures, recovery of more than 1,500 firearms, lengthy sentences, and extraditions targeting cartels, gangs, and trafficking networks.
The executive-order mandate specifically prioritizes child-trafficking cases, with ongoing multi-agency rescues and predator takedowns beyond the drug and firearms statistics. Federal agencies including the FBI, HSI, and U.S. Marshals continue investigations and operations against child-trafficking and exploitation networks. Many remain non-public until arrests or rescues occur, to protect ongoing work. Recent public examples and official statements confirm that this priority continues through task forces, victim identification, and targeted enforcement.
Educating Educators to Protect Children
Guard Against Trafficking is an organization dedicated to combatting human trafficking through innovative research, dynamic education and strategic solutions. Counter-trafficking consultant Ali Hopper provided testimony for Congressional Oversight on September 1, 2026
The children deserve our time and energy focused to insure their safety. With a multi-agency coordinated law-enforcement action, accountability for those who enabled or profited from their exploitation will occur. Progress is measurable, it is happening, but the work is far from finished. Here are clear examples of ongoing operations:
Here are recent quotes and statements from law enforcement officials on partnering to combat child trafficking, locate missing children, share resources, and the results of multi-agency operations (primarily from 2026 official sources, press releases, and public statements).
FBI Director Kash Patel (on Operation Summer Heat 2.0 results, including children located):
“This year’s Summer Heat was our second straight nationwide offensive to crush violent crime all over the country, and the results were outstanding. Even after last year’s unprecedented numbers, all 56 FBI field offices stepped up and delivered even higher numbers this year—arresting almost 9,000 subjects, up 3% from Summer Heat last year; seizing 63% more fentanyl; identifying or locating 1,410 children, 34% higher than last year; and recovering over 5,000 weapons, up 120% from 2025. … When this FBI elevated ‘crushing violent crime’ to one of our top priorities, we moved 2,000 FBI personnel out of Washington and permanently into the field—making the decisive call to go on offense.”
Patel has also highlighted broader progress: the FBI has identified or located over 11,000 child victims (a 21% increase) and arrested over 5,000 child predators and human traffickers (a 13% increase) in roughly the prior 18 months, supported by more than 90 Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Forces that include local task force officers and international partners.
FBI Director Kash Patel (on the Long Island Missing Children Recovery Operation that located 34 children):
“A three-day operation in New York brought together 100+ professionals from nearly 40 agencies — and 34 missing children and teens, ages 7 to 18, were found. That’s what happens when law enforcement shares intelligence, follows every lead, and refuses to quit. These aren’t case numbers. They’re kids. They’re families. Outstanding work by every professional who helped bring them to safety. Find the missing. Protect the vulnerable. Never stop.”
Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) (on the Memphis Safe Task Force):
“THANKS TO THE MEMPHIS SAFE TASK FORCE, 180+ MISSING CHILDREN HAVE BEEN LOCATED. HSI and our federal and state partners remain committed to protecting children and keeping our communities safe.”
El Paso County Sheriff Joseph Roybal (on the new Southern Colorado Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force with FBI Denver and Colorado Springs Police):
“Protecting children and vulnerable individuals requires more than the efforts of any single law enforcement agency. It requires trusted partnerships, shared intelligence and a commitment to working together without boundaries. By bringing the FBI, El Paso County Sheriff’s Office, and Colorado Springs Police Department together under one roof, we are strengthening our ability to identify victims, disrupt those who prey on them and hold offenders accountable. This task force represents a united front against child exploitation and human trafficking…”
FBI Denver Special Agent in Charge Amanda Koldjeski (same task force):
“Establishing the Southern Colorado Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force is a commitment to the families of Southern Colorado: We will not wait for problems to grow. We will be proactive. We will work together. And we will do everything in our power to keep children safe.”
Border Czar Tom Homan (on locating unaccompanied children from the prior administration, in interviews and statements):
“He [President Trump] asked me to do three things: secure the border, run deportation operations, and find these kids.” Homan has stated that roughly 157,000 of the previously unaccounted-for children have been located through the work of HSI, the FBI, and partners (with many found safe with family, though some in trafficking or exploitation situations). He has emphasized the difficulty due to fraudulent sponsor information and said efforts continue for the remainder, noting he will not stop searching.
FBI New York (on the Long Island operation):
“The three-day operation brought together more than 100 professionals from nearly 40 agencies and organizations to locate vulnerable young people and connect them with care and support. Together, law enforcement partners will continue to work together in the mission to protect and find all children.”
These are drawn from official FBI, HSI, and related public statements and releases in 2026. Primary sources include FBI.gov press materials, HSI/ICE announcements, and public remarks by Patel and Homan. Numbers and claims can vary slightly by date and exact scope as operations are ongoing.
The Law Enforcement Partnership Model:
How they partner: Multi-agency task forces (HSTFs co-led by FBI and HSI, plus local/state agencies, NCMEC, etc.) co-locate investigators, share intelligence in real time, pool resources, conduct joint operations, and combine federal tools with local knowledge. Officials repeatedly stress that no single agency can do it alone.
Desire for city/local partnership: Statements emphasize the value of local participation for faster identification of victims, better community knowledge, and force-multiplier effects. New local task forces are being stood up specifically to strengthen this.
Success metrics cited: Thousands of children identified/located or rescued (e.g., 1,410 in Summer Heat 2.0 alone, up 34%; broader figures of 11,000+; 157,000 of prior UAC cases located per Homan/HHS; 180+ via one Memphis task force; 34 in one New York operation). Arrests of predators and traffickers in the thousands, with increases over prior periods. Operations include Summer Heat, targeted HSTF actions (e.g., Loaded Dice in Las Vegas), and specialized efforts like victim identification sprints.
Resource sharing: Intelligence sharing, joint task forces, coordinated welfare checks/sponsor investigations, and multi-agency command structures. Many specific rescues stay non-public until complete for operational reasons.
Operations are ongoing, only after they are completed are the results announced, but here are 5 recent examples of multi-agency operations that located or recovered missing/endangered children (primarily 2026, drawn from official announcements by the FBI, HSI, U.S. Marshals Service, and related agencies). Numbers reflect what was publicly reported at the time of each announcement; many operations are ongoing or part of larger efforts, and not every individual case is detailed for operational reasons.
Memphis Safe Task Force (Memphis, Tennessee) ~180–196 missing children located (figures cited as 180+ by HSI in late September 2026; U.S. Marshals updates around the same period and later listed ~196 since the task force launched). Multi-agency effort (U.S. Marshals, HSI, FBI, local/state partners, and others) focused on violent crime, warrants, guns, and missing children. Ongoing since September 2025.
Long Island Missing Children Recovery Operation (Long Island and Queens, New York) 34 missing children and teens (ages 7–18) located in a 3-day operation (early October 2026). Involved 100+ professionals from nearly 40 agencies and organizations (FBI New York, New York State agencies, local partners, National Child Protection Task Force, and others). Some cases involved exploitation/trafficking indicators.
Operation Summer Heat 2.0 (Nationwide, FBI-led) 1,410 children identified or located (34% increase over the prior year’s Summer Heat). Four-month violent crime surge (roughly June–September 2026) across all 56 FBI field offices, working with state and local partners. Also included thousands of arrests, weapons seizures, and fentanyl interdiction.
Operation Iron Pursuit (Nationwide, DOJ/FBI) Over 200 child victims located (and 350+ offenders arrested). One-month nationwide crackdown in April 2026 involving all 56 FBI field offices and U.S. Attorneys’ offices, focused on child sexual abuse and exploitation.
Operation Meridian (Ohio, U.S. Marshals Service-led) 79 missing and endangered children (ages 6–17) located. Monthlong effort in August 2026, described as the largest missing-child operation in Ohio history. Involved dozens of agencies including local police, sheriffs, FBI, HSI, and others.
These are public, high-profile examples. Additional recoveries occur through ongoing HSTF work, local task forces, and UAC welfare checks, but many details stay non-public until operations conclude. High level officials such as Tom Homan, HHS, FBI or the White House have referenced roughly 157,000 previously unaccounted-for unaccompanied children located since early 2025 through coordinated HSI/FBI/partner efforts, though that is a cumulative multi-year effort rather than a single named operation. Figures are updated as investigations continue.
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