Democratic Washington Rep. Pramila Jayapal falsely claimed Wednesday that no unaccompanied migrant children have gone missing in the U.S. during a House Judiciary Committee hearing.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials have lost track of at least 32,000 migrant children who have entered the U.S. and had been released from the custody of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) since 2019, according to a report by the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) in August. Jayapal claimed these unaccompanied children are “not lost,” but that HHS is simply no longer in contact with the children and their adult sponsors.

“Today’s hearing will be one final attempt by the majority to use all their same, false talking points that the Biden administration purposefully lost tens of thousands of children, all of which we know is wrong by the facts,” Jayapal said. “And I’m sure [HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra] will address this as well, but let’s just be clear, these children are not lost. HHS’ legal authority ceases once an unaccompanied child is reunited with a sponsor, usually a parent or a close relative. While HHS conducts three follow-up calls to ensure that everything is going well between a sponsor and a child, the agency has no ability to force their way into the home. If no one answers these three calls, then HHS is no longer in contact with the child. Now that does not mean that the child is lost.”