#WhereAreTheChildren social-media campaign calls on feds to find missing migrant children

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On CNN, Rick Santorum said they're not lost, "we just don't know where they are."

He must be talking about his decency and dignity.

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#WhereAreTheChildren social-media campaign calls on feds to find missing migrant children

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/2018/05/27/campaign-calls-u-s-find-1-500-missing-migrant-kids/647991002/
Bayan Wang and Dianna M. Náñez, The Republic | azcentral.com Published 9:42 a.m. MT May 27, 2018 | Updated 4:09 p.m. MT May 27, 2018
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A campaign calling on the U.S. to find nearly 1,500 migrant children taken into custody and then misplaced by the government gained traction on social media Saturday and Sunday.

The #WhereAreTheChildren hashtag came in response to news that a federal agency misplaced 1,475 children, many of whom traveled alone to the U.S. to escape abuse and poverty, according to Senate committee testimony in April by a top Department of Health and Human Services official.

Steven Wagner, the acting assistant secretary for agency's Administration for Children and Families division, told lawmakers that officials discovered the children were lost when the Office of Refugee Resettlement made calls from October 2017 through the end of the year to check on the safety and well-being of the minors.

Another 6,075 children remained with their sponsors, according to Wagner's report.


The children were taken into custody and placed with sponsors after arriving at the border alone. Most of the kids were from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala.

Weeks after the testimony, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a zero-tolerance policy for people who cross they border illegally, warning that children would be separated from their parents.

The #WhereAreTheChildren movement calls on the U.S. to find the lost children and stop any policy that would separate children who migrate to the U.S. illegally from their mothers or fathers.



The outcry trended on various social media as celebrities, human-rights advocates and others urged action......................

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[Iliyah]

1. K & R

Where are the compassionate Christians on the Republican side, oh that's right, they are busy kissing t-rump's arse.

[Gothmog]

2. It is trump's fault that these children are misisng

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[mcar]

3. K&R