Emails show Trump admin had 'no way to link' separated migrant kids to parents

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: NBC

LOS ANGELES — On the same day the Trump administration said it would reunite thousands of migrant families it had separated at the border with the help of a "central database," an official was admitting privately the government only had enough information to reconnect 60 parents with their kids, according to emails obtained by NBC News.

"In short, no, we do not have any linkages from parents to [children], save for a handful," a Health and Human Services official told a top official at Immigration and Customs Enforcement on June 23, 2018. "We have a list of parent alien numbers but no way to link them to children."

In the absence of an effective database, the emails show, officials then began scrambling to fill out a simple spreadsheet with data in hopes of reuniting as many as families as they could.

The gaps in the system for tracking separations would result in a months-long effort to reunite nearly 3,000 families separated under the administration's "zero tolerance" policy. Officials had to review all the relevant records manually, a process that continues.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/emails-show-trump-admin-had-no-way-to-link-separated-migrant-kids-to-parents/ar-AAAMnET?li=BBnb7Kz

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These idiots wear their incompetence like a badge of honor

[femmedem]

1. It's almost too painful to contemplate.

These brave, hopeful families who travelled so far only to fall into this hell.

[lapfog_1]

2. never ascribe to malice that which can best be blamed on incompetence

however, in this case... malice might well be more at play than mere incompetence.

[BigmanPigman]

3. This was Stephan Miller's dream come true.

I blame him for a lot of this crap.

[tanyev]

4. And yet they were able to track the menstrual cycles of teenage female detainees.

Damn them all to hell.

[unblock]

5. it's not incompetence, it's genocide

Genocide is defined in Article 2 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
(1948) as "any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical,
racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to
members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its
physical destruction in whole or in part1
; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; [and]
forcibly transferring children of the group to another group."

https://www.un.org/ar/preventgenocide/adviser/pdf/osapg_analysis_framework.pdf

[SunSeeker]

6. The cruel indifference is not a bug, it is a feature.

It is all part of their ineffective and evil child separation "deterrence" strategy.

[Eugene]

7. Not incompetence, rather depraved indifference.

These people just don't give the f*** about non-white human beings needed to think this through. I'm especially talking about you, Stephen Miller.

[area51]

8. This is going to drag out

until Trump gets fired in 2020, then he'll gladly dump it on the lap of the incoming dem president, & all of a sudden Faux propaganda channel will get outraged about the lack of reunited children with their parents.

[Hekate]

9. DNA you evil fckers. Right now. Cruelty and malice were the entire point from the outset...

There were never any plans beyond kidnapping.

[Danmel]

10. My dry cleaner takes better care of my skirts

Than these bastards do with people's children.

[SummerSnow]

11. The Trump Administration: Destroying families since 2017