https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/26/us/politics/migrant-children-missing.html
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...00-migrant-kids-they-placed-with-U-S-sponsors
Federal officials from Health and Human Services (HHS) say they have no idea what has happened to 1,500 migrant children they placed with U.S. sponsors after they arrived to the border unaccompanied. Yup, you’re reading that correctly. While Trump administration officials and their enablers in the media are clutching their pearls over a White House Correspondents’ Dinner comedy set, the federal government can’t “determine with certainty” 1,500 vulnerable kids they placed into the hands of sponsors:
"The official, Steven Wagner, the acting assistant secretary of the agency’s Administration for Children and Families, disclosed during testimony before a Senate homeland security subcommittee that the agency had learned of the missing children after placing calls to the people who took responsibility for them when they were released from government custody."
Those sponsors “undergo a detailed background check,” and “workers at the department follow up with calls to ensure that the minors continue to live with the sponsors, are enrolled in school and are aware of their court dates.” But when officials tried to reach 7,635 children during a three-month period last year, officials found that not only had some two dozen of the kids run away and another 52 were living with non-sponsors, but that they “were unable to determine with certainty the whereabouts of 1,475 children.”
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...00-migrant-kids-they-placed-with-U-S-sponsors
Federal officials from Health and Human Services (HHS) say they have no idea what has happened to 1,500 migrant children they placed with U.S. sponsors after they arrived to the border unaccompanied. Yup, you’re reading that correctly. While Trump administration officials and their enablers in the media are clutching their pearls over a White House Correspondents’ Dinner comedy set, the federal government can’t “determine with certainty” 1,500 vulnerable kids they placed into the hands of sponsors:
"The official, Steven Wagner, the acting assistant secretary of the agency’s Administration for Children and Families, disclosed during testimony before a Senate homeland security subcommittee that the agency had learned of the missing children after placing calls to the people who took responsibility for them when they were released from government custody."
Those sponsors “undergo a detailed background check,” and “workers at the department follow up with calls to ensure that the minors continue to live with the sponsors, are enrolled in school and are aware of their court dates.” But when officials tried to reach 7,635 children during a three-month period last year, officials found that not only had some two dozen of the kids run away and another 52 were living with non-sponsors, but that they “were unable to determine with certainty the whereabouts of 1,475 children.”
