Biden handed 300,000 children to traffickers and charged American taxpayers billions to fund the operation.
Nick Shirley spent 43 minutes on camera proving exactly how the pipeline worked.
And the documentary just released shows what those NGOs did when asked where the children went.
How Taxpayer-Funded NGOs Built the Pipeline That Moved 300,000 Unaccompanied Children
Nick Shirley is the independent filmmaker who went viral exposing Somali daycare fraud in Minnesota – the investigation that caught the FBI's attention and built him 1.8 million followers.
He just found something worse.
Shirley spent months traveling across multiple states to prove what the government's own reports had already confirmed.
He dropped the 43-minute film on X overnight, and it opens with the contracts.
One NGO alone received $895 million in taxpayer money to move unaccompanied migrant children through the United States.
Others collected more than $100 million each.
Biden's administration handed Family Endeavors Inc. a $529 million no-bid contract – to an organization an inspector general later confirmed had no experience handling an operation that size.
Southwest Key Programs, the largest network of migrant child shelters in the country, collected $3 billion from Biden's government.
Executives immediately hiked their own salaries by up to 198%.
These organizations in places like Tucson had federal money coming in as fast as children were coming across the border.
When Trump shut the border down, the money dried up and the NGOs went silent.
The children still haven't come back.
Shirley confronted these organizations directly – on camera.
When pressed about what happened to the children in their care, one staff member turned around and walked away.
She had no answer – and your money paid her salary.
Where Biden's Missing Migrant Children Ended Up After the NGOs Released Them
Former Border Patrol agents in the documentary describe what they witnessed at processing facilities.
Children arriving with addresses written on their arms.
Not their names – addresses, written on their skin the way you mark cargo before it ships.
Flight attendants who spoke on camera described watching children board planes in groups of five to ten, over and over, as a matter of routine.
Senate testimony confirmed that cartels embedded themselves inside the sponsor pipeline – coaching children to request cartel-linked sponsors before federal release.
The DHS Office of Inspector General documented what came next.
ICE transferred more than 448,000 unaccompanied children to HHS between fiscal years 2019 and 2023.
As of May 2024, ICE had not issued Notices to Appear – the documents initiating removal proceedings – for more than 291,000 of them.
More than 32,000 of those who were scheduled simply didn't show up to court.
When agents tried to locate those children, the release addresses came back wrong, blank, or undeliverable – by the tens of thousands.
The OIG's own report found that children who don't appear in court face higher risk of trafficking, exploitation, or forced labor.
A separate HHS Inspector General audit found the agency never followed up on 22% of the children it handed to sponsors.
Sixteen percent of case files had no proof sponsors had undergone safety checks at all.
"Super sponsors" – individuals who took custody of three or more unrelated migrant children – powered the exploitation network, federal investigators later confirmed.
Senate Republicans documented in their November 2024 minority staff report that illegal child labor among these children reached levels not seen since the early 20th century.
After Trump took office, his administration began searching for these children, and by June 2026 had located 146,000 – more than 150,000 remain unaccounted for.
HHS staffers warned Biden's administration directly while the exploitation was ongoing – and Biden's people pushed them out in retaliation.
The DHS Inspector General urged ICE to take immediate action to ensure child safety, and Biden ignored it.
Congressional investigators who tried to find out why were stonewalled.
The difference between negligence and operation is simple: a negligent government loses children.
A government that silences the people warning it, fires the whistleblowers, stonewalls investigators, and keeps writing the checks – that government is running a pipeline.
Utah Senator Mike Lee saw Shirley's documentary and asked the obvious question: "If NGOs are non-governmental organizations, then why should government fund them? Defund NGOs!"
The pipeline moved those children deliberately – and charged American taxpayers for every step.
Every person inside the government who tried to stop it lost their job – and Shirley did the work they refused to do.
The woman who walked away on camera when asked about the children was paid with your money.
The children she couldn't account for are still out there.
Sources:
- Cassandra MacDonald, "WATCH: Nick Shirley's Explosive New Investigation Exposes the Biden-Era NGO Pipeline," The Gateway Pundit, November 2, 2026.
- Bradley Devlin, "The Facts Behind Biden-Harris Admin's Loss of 300K Migrant Kids," The Daily Signal, August 23, 2024.
- Sen. Marsha Blackburn, "Blackburn Presses DHS and ICE on New Report Revealing They May Have Lost Track of More than 300K Unaccompanied Migrant Children," Senate.gov, August 29, 2024.
- Staff, "Biden Gave This NGO $3 Billion for Illegal Alien Handouts Despite Child Abuse Allegations," The Blaze, 2025.
- Guy Taylor, "Biden Administration Paid Millions in Sweetheart Deal to Care for Migrant Children," The Washington Times, February 13, 2026.
- Staff, "DHS, DOJ, HHS Locate 146,000 Unaccompanied Children Lost Under Biden," Washington Examiner, June 11, 2026.
- House Homeland Security Committee, "'It's a Pipeline': Experts Reveal How Taxpayer-Funded NGOs Facilitated Human Trafficking," Homeland.house.gov, July 17, 2025.
- Brittany M. Hughes, "The Biden Administration Has Lost Track of 290,000 Illegal Alien Kids, DHS Inspector General Finds," MRCTV, August 21, 2024.