This Guardian article reports that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) awarded a contract to private security firm MVM Inc.—a company previously accused in lawsuits of “torture,” “enforced disappearance,” and mistreatment of migrant children—to help locate undocumented children who entered the U.S. alone. While ICE describes the effort as “safety and wellness checks” to ensure children’s well-being, internal documents and critics suggest the program is actually intended to facilitate deportations or legal action against the children or their sponsors, raising fears of renewed “backdoor family separation.” The article highlights MVM’s controversial history tied to earlier family separation policies and underscores widespread concern among advocates and legal experts that outsourcing this work to a firm with such allegations could further harm already vulnerable children, despite government claims that the initiative is focused on protection and preventing trafficking.