Locating migrant children who entered the United States during the Biden administration should be a top national priority, former U.S. Customs and Border Protection Chief Patrol Agent Greg Bovino said Sunday on Newsmax.

“There should have been more outrage on the hundreds of thousands of children that were being trafficked across that border under Biden,” Bovino told Newsmax’s “Sunday Report.”“The Border Patrol, as well as ICE, we raised the alarm for years, and it fell on deaf ears.”

Bovino’s comments came after Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin discussed investigations into reports of abuse involving some unaccompanied migrant children, and after the Trump administration announced that 146,000 migrant children who went missing during the Biden administration have been tracked down.

Law enforcement officials warned for years about the dangers facing unaccompanied migrant children crossing the southern border, Bovino said.

However, he added that the plight of migrant children has been overshadowed by political disputes in some states over immigration enforcement.

“Boy, aren’t there some misplaced priorities,” Bovino said. “It’s prioritizing those children above all else, above hunger strikes, above detention facilities that have rioters out front.”

He also noted that officials are still searching for many more missing children.

“Good on President Trump. 146,000 found. We have several more hundreds of thousands to go,” Bovino said. “But that in itself is spectacular.”

Bovino called on state and local officials to devote greater attention to the issue.

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