US lost track of 1,500 undocumented children, but says it's not 'legally responsible'

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


By Dakin Andone, CNN 5 hrs ago

The federal government has placed thousands of unaccompanied immigrant children in the homes of sponsors, but last year it couldn't account for nearly 1,500 of them.

Steven Wagner, a top official with the Department of Health and Human Services, disclosed the number to a Senate subcommittee last month while discussing the state of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) that oversees the care of unaccompanied immigrant children.

Wagner is the acting assistant secretary for the Administration for Children and Families, which is part of the Department of Health and Human Services. ORR is a program of the Administration for Children and Families.

CNN reported earlier this month that, in his testimony, Wagner said during the last three months of 2017, the ORR lost track of nearly 1,500 immigrant children it had placed in the homes of sponsors.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/us-lost-track-of-1500-undocumented-children-but-says-its-not-legally-responsible/ar-AAxQgCY?li=BBnb7Kz

[sandensea]

1. Human trafficking.

And I bet Cheeto and/or his associates are taking a cut.

[PatrickforO]

2. How about MORALLY responsible?

When we take back our republic, the first thing is massive and intrusive reforms to ICE.

[thesquanderer]

6. Samantha Bee did a great piece on why ICE should be shut down entirely.

It may sound extreme, but only because we get used to something being there and assume it's always been there and always will. ICE didn't even exist until 2003!

[C Moon]

3. What a nice bunch of people, huh?

[Flaleftist]

4. So did they lose the records of who the sponsors were?

Do they know the sponsors but the sponsors moved without updating their contact information, perhaps in an attempt to protect them from deportation? This article isn't very clear on exactly what they mean by lost.

[Achilleaze]

5. Draft-dodging republicans now dodge reponsibility to children

KGOP republicans are the most morally corrupt party of all times. Disgusting.

[keithbvadu2]

7. If you pass the right laws, anything can be 'legal'.

[madville]

8. They claim they don't have the resources to "track" that many individuals

Their responsibility is to place the children with a sponsor. The sponsor is then responsible for making sure the child is reporting in, appearing at immigration court, etc.

I'm sure it would be expensive but maybe they could start making them all wear ankle monitoring devices so the government can "track" them in real time (I'm not serious of course).