97 missing children found in Memphis
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Yeeeeeeah that’s one of those stats similar to how Elon saved us billions of dollars.
Unfortunately, there are a lot of people who don't want it to be true and wish for failure.
Well I’m not one of those but I have a hard time believing there are 100 missing kids in Memphis alone. There’d be a bigger deal made about that.
My first thought is a bunch are teens who have left home to join gangs but either way would be amazing
Go back and reread my original statement. Your answer will be there.
Memphis Safe Task Force Locates 101 Missing Children in Past 40 Days | U.S. Marshals Service
Memphis, TN - As of November 8, the Memphis Safe Task Force has located and safety returned 101 missing children. Parents and caregivers can now sleep soundly
As bad as our media is, who would hear about it?
Yeah it’s something weird like that. Not exactly missing kids that are presumed to be forcibly kidnapped and in imminent danger.
This administration has been extremely, uhh, ‘biased’ in their portrayal of numerical statistics.
Kids in gangs not in imminent danger? Well that would be shocking
Most of us live in Mississippi. If 101 kids were missing in the traditional sense we would have all known about it. Its likely kids that left on their own and are probably subject to committing crimes so getting them back home is a good start.
Not interested in your racial virtue signaling. I’m just saying that there aren’t 100 kids of any race, on those posters in gas stations that say ‘MISSING’.Go back and reread my original statement. Your answer will be there.
Memphis Safe Task Force Locates 101 Missing Children in Past 40 Days | U.S. Marshals Service
Memphis, TN - As of November 8, the Memphis Safe Task Force has located and safety returned 101 missing children. Parents and caregivers can now sleep soundlywww.usmarshals.gov
Well that statement says jackshit.Go back and reread my original statement. Your answer will be there.
Memphis Safe Task Force Locates 101 Missing Children in Past 40 Days | U.S. Marshals Service
Memphis, TN - As of November 8, the Memphis Safe Task Force has located and safety returned 101 missing children. Parents and caregivers can now sleep soundly
Is there some news article I missed?
Sorry, I’m not taking anything that’s posted on 17ing Instagram as a credible source of current events.
Sorry, I’m not taking anything that’s posted on 17ing Instagram as a credible source of current events.
Forgive @OG Goat Holder. He lacks basic intelligence.
No, they are not. They made a choice. They were not forcibly taken from their bedrooms by a creepy old perv in a black van that said Free Kandy on the side.
It’s a combination of gang affiliated teenagers, runaways, and a little bit of sex trafficking.
I have a very credible source. I cannot say any more than that so that he doesn’t get in trouble.
I have a very credible source. I cannot say any more than that so that he doesn’t get in trouble.
With very little digging, you can find that the majority were runaways, average age of 16. Most were local. A few were from out of state. Hopefully whatever transpired will serve to point some of them in the right direction. I suspect that the resources to really help them will be lacking and that is all of our faults. If we cared enough about such things, we would figure out a way to have an impact. I'd be willing to bet that the #1 driver behind it is socioeconomic.
Out of curiosity, are any of you involved in, or aware of private organizations that are doing a good job helping youth? Short of a youth program at an inner city ministry that I work with, I don't know a place to apply any resources to help. They guys that run that ministry are special. Lot more sad stories than success stories...
Out of curiosity, are any of you involved in, or aware of private organizations that are doing a good job helping youth? Short of a youth program at an inner city ministry that I work with, I don't know a place to apply any resources to help. They guys that run that ministry are special. Lot more sad stories than success stories...
It's a pretty widely acknowledged metric. There's more than 250k unaccounted for children that were smuggled across the border in the last admin.
After seeing this thread headline, I googled it because I sure as 17 wasnt aware of the missing kids, the task force, or the rescue. Its apparently over 100 kids now.
Every site I found, based on my one google search, was either glitchy as 17 and spammed me with popups and reloads, or it was facebook...oh, and there was a .gov site too.
Based on that alone, this seems like a really good thing, but fundamentally different from 100 abducted and trafficked kids being rescued. The 3 news sites I did click on all had a worthless blurb of info, which left me no more informed than before I visited their sites.
As an adult living in 2025, I really wish I had easy access to verifiable and reliable information.
Every site I found, based on my one google search, was either glitchy as 17 and spammed me with popups and reloads, or it was facebook...oh, and there was a .gov site too.
Based on that alone, this seems like a really good thing, but fundamentally different from 100 abducted and trafficked kids being rescued. The 3 news sites I did click on all had a worthless blurb of info, which left me no more informed than before I visited their sites.
As an adult living in 2025, I really wish I had easy access to verifiable and reliable information.
I didn't realize it until very recently, but kids involved in nasty custody disputes routinely make up a major percentage of missing kids. Of course that's not to say that isn't extremely traumatic for the kids and parents involved but it's also a fundamentally different situation than stranger danger.
A little more context around the numbers:
- Not all of these children were “smuggled” in the criminal sense. Many were unaccompanied minors who crossed the border and were processed through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
- Of those, over 233,000 children were not enrolled in immigration proceedings, increasing their risk of trafficking and exploitation.
- Reports from the DHS Office of Inspector General and Senate Judiciary Committee revealed that tens of thousands of children were placed with unvetted sponsors, some of whom were later found to be smugglers or traffickers.
ETA now that I'm in this rabbit hole: that 500k number compares to 300k during Trump's first term. Biden could have changed some things about the way the southern border was handled, remained tough on illegal entry, worked on improving the process under current laws and not spoken in ways that seemingly encouraged more people to try to cross the border. Unfortunately he walked right down a political pandering path rather than attempting real problem solving. Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
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This is great news and I’ll leave it at that.
I agree with the other posters about missing kids and no news of it. I live in an affluent small town area and I keep seeing all these idiots posting about how sex traffickers are posting up in Walmart parking lot in broad daylight trying to lure kids. If one of these kids went missing it would be all over the news. Hell a Navarre adult went missing 2 years ago and it made national news. If this is truly happening in low income areas, I would hope there would be more of a national discussion.
I agree with the other posters about missing kids and no news of it. I live in an affluent small town area and I keep seeing all these idiots posting about how sex traffickers are posting up in Walmart parking lot in broad daylight trying to lure kids. If one of these kids went missing it would be all over the news. Hell a Navarre adult went missing 2 years ago and it made national news. If this is truly happening in low income areas, I would hope there would be more of a national discussion.
I think the problem with this post is that there seems to a somewhat intentional conflation of the word "missing" with "kidnapped" in order to tap into the narrative that kids across America are being stolen in the night by bad actors. That's not really what this is about, as has been mentioned by several people before me.
The panic about children being kidnapped in America dates back well into the 1970s, and is also tied into the Satanic Panic of that same time. Here's a link about it from Ohio State, and it does a good job explaining it.
origins.osu.edu
Kids are not being snatched by the 1000s out of homes. Custody disputes and neglect lead to "abducted" and "missing" kids.
The panic about children being kidnapped in America dates back well into the 1970s, and is also tied into the Satanic Panic of that same time. Here's a link about it from Ohio State, and it does a good job explaining it.
Child Kidnapping in America | Origins
Across the United States this autumn, Americans watched intently the unfolding of two highly publicized cases of child abduction.The kidnappers of Elizabeth Smart were at last brought to trial for their crimes after years of being declared mentally unfit. Fourteen years old at the time...
Kids are not being snatched by the 1000s out of homes. Custody disputes and neglect lead to "abducted" and "missing" kids.
This sounds like good news. Does it mean Trump is the greatest president ever because we love Trump? No. Should we **** all over it because we hate Trump? No.
everything doesn’t have to be an all or none situation that proves one side to be completely right or wrong.
and even if sending American troops to cities ends up being the greatest single thing ever done by any president ever, it still makes me uncomfortable. I don’t like one man having that kind of power, because it means the next guy has it too.
everything doesn’t have to be an all or none situation that proves one side to be completely right or wrong.
and even if sending American troops to cities ends up being the greatest single thing ever done by any president ever, it still makes me uncomfortable. I don’t like one man having that kind of power, because it means the next guy has it too.
What? You mean the admin that fired the statistics guy because they didn't like the numbers?
There were alien teenage minors crossing the board, in the last few years. When they illegally cross the boarder, there is no paperwork obviously. So when illegal minors are found without their parents, they are sent back to their parents in their home country. that makes up some of these numbers too.
You have what I would guess is an optimistic view of our national priorities. I mean, they're not getting kidnapped by and large (outside of possibly the illegal immigrant ones), but there are certainly lots of minors being trafficked under physical and psychological duress/manipulation and it's not much of a priority. Granted a lot of them are hard to help and would either openly tell you they are staying of their own free will or would run back to their abusers not long after being "rescued" even if they acknowledged they didn't want to be there. But if it was happening to affluent children in the same numbers (or probably at 10% of the numbers), we would probably shut that **** down.
Federal agents had 240 west damn near shut down a few weeks ago. When I passed by it was 2 cars surrounded by a lot of unmarked police cars. Turned out it was a few people wanted in a human trafficking ring.
Sounds like positive news, but these teenage aliens have been around here for a long time.
You're an American. We have never had access to verifiable and reliable information. But I wish we did too.
We are a lazy culture who don't have the time to look for truth. Sensational claims and headlines are what prompt action. They are carefully crafted to suit their intended audiences. In this case, a run in with law enforcement is quite possibly the only thing that might get these kids attention. Even still, it will take an exceptional person to prevail against the headwinds they face.I think the problem with this post is that there seems to a somewhat intentional conflation of the word "missing" with "kidnapped" in order to tap into the narrative that kids across America are being stolen in the night by bad actors. That's not really what this is about, as has been mentioned by several people before me.
The panic about children being kidnapped in America dates back well into the 1970s, and is also tied into the Satanic Panic of that same time. Here's a link about it from Ohio State, and it does a good job explaining it.
Child Kidnapping in America | Origins
Across the United States this autumn, Americans watched intently the unfolding of two highly publicized cases of child abduction.The kidnappers of Elizabeth Smart were at last brought to trial for their crimes after years of being declared mentally unfit. Fourteen years old at the time...
Kids are not being snatched by the 1000s out of homes. Custody disputes and neglect lead to "abducted" and "missing" kids.
Another data point is that most of the actual trafficking of people in the US is of illegal immigrants, both adults and minors.
www.iar-gwu.org
This gets conflated with "child trafficking", which is then used by some media sources to message or imply "white child trafficking".
I didn't search any data on this, but my suspicion is that many outlets who report on this are okay with the conflation.
It's hard for me to believe that people holding strong anti-immigration opinions care very much about the issue of immigrant trafficking. I could be wrong.
Along the Borderline: The Critical Links Between Human Trafficking and U.S.-Mexico Immigration — THE INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS REVIEW
Abstract Immigration and human trafficking in the United States are fundamentally interconnected. Trump-era U.S. immigration policies exacerbated human trafficking in America over the course of the past four years. The Biden administration has a powerful opportunity to implement meaningful immigra
www.iar-gwu.org
This gets conflated with "child trafficking", which is then used by some media sources to message or imply "white child trafficking".
I didn't search any data on this, but my suspicion is that many outlets who report on this are okay with the conflation.
It's hard for me to believe that people holding strong anti-immigration opinions care very much about the issue of immigrant trafficking. I could be wrong.
I would say that we, as a culture, are guilty of crediting the executive branch with far more credit than it deserves and have done so as long as I can remember. Most of this is the work of the government agencies who carry out this work far beyond 4-year election terms.
It's not Trump doing this, it wasn't Biden, Obama, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Reagan, etc.
It's as if Americans can't comprehend that we have a professional bureaucracy that performs most of the functions in the country that leads to headlines.
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