Report: US lacked technology to track separated families

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Astrid Galvan, Associated Press
Updated 4:44 pm CST, Wednesday, November 27, 2019

PHOENIX (AP) — The U.S. government separated thousands of families despite knowing it lacked the technology to document and track their whereabouts, according to a report released Wednesday by an internal government watchdog.

The problem resulted in some parents languishing in custody for weeks without knowing the location of their children.

The report by the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General found the agency lacked proper systems when Border Patrol agents took children from parents set to be criminally prosecuted for illegal entry.

. . .

The problem meant agents had to delete prior entries documenting families who arrived together and replace them with references to “single adults” and “unaccompanied children.”



Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/texas/article/Report-US-lacked-technology-to-track-separated-14867320.php

[BigmanPigman]

1. They would still be separating tons more

as they had planned of it didn't get a strong backlash from the American population when the media made us aware of these outrageous practices. How can S. Miller and his pals stand themselves?...

[Stargazer09]

2. Bullshit

I refuse to believe technology was a problem. They could have used a handwritten notebook to document everything. The truth is, they did not care. They did not want anything recorded, because they did not consider them to be human beings.

Lack of technology is just their latest excuse for the evil they perpetrated.

[SunSeeker]

5. Exactly what I was thinking. nt

[Efilroft Sul]

12. Precisely. Not keeping records was a feature, not a bug, of these separations.

[mpcamb]

18. So jail and fine the policy perps who did the separations. Watch the scramble then.

[pnwmom]

3. The problem wasn't lacking technology. They just chose not to use it.

Walmart or Target would have done a much better job.

You wouldn't go to war without weapons. They shouldn't have taken on this project without the technology already in place.

[C Moon]

4. Regardless, do you think the GOP, Trump and Putin cared if there was technology to track them?

God damned criminals. The GOP is being run by Russia now.

[SunSeeker]

6. The only technology they needed was pencil and paper.

What they lacked was human decency.

[Crash2Parties]

7. They lacked nothing; they accomplished what they set out to do.

[rampartc]

8. geezus. these guys couldn't use hospital bracelets or dog tags?

shirts with numbers or any of 1000 ways that prisoners and patients have been tracked since ancient rome?

[Lochloosa]

9. The Nazi's kept track of Millions of Jews during the Holocaust....on PAPER

I call bullshit. You have to WANT to keep track of them.

[localroger]

10. And all those records came back to haunt them

The lesson of Nuremberg for many people is "don't record your war crimes."

[dalton99a]

15. The Khmer Rouge were also meticulous record keepers

For nearly two decades, the idea of bringing Pol Pot to justice was a pipe dream for most Cambodians. But now the idea doesn't seem so far-fetched, and the Khmer Rouge has obligingly provided investigators with the means to do it—and to bring others to justice if the political will is there. There are literally hundreds of thousands of pages of evidence of the Khmer Rouge genocide, which were kept by the Khmer Rouge themselves...before and after photos of torture and murder victims, even biographers of the murderers themselves. The Khmer Rouge, one investigator says, were better record keepers than the Nazis, and it's these records that will likely be used against Pol Pot if and when he faces an international tribunal. NPR's Mary Kay Magistad reports.

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1039181

[Ford_Prefect]

11. IMO: They tracked them until they got caught...then they destroyed the records.

[bucolic_frolic]

13. A hopital-type bracelet and ID card could have been up and running in 3 hours

This is a BS story to cover up something else.

[SKKY]

14. We don't "...lack the technology..." to track these kids.

DHS failed to use the technology that is already available. It was negligence, not lack of technology. Big, big difference.

[Talitha]

16. Dammit, we HAVE the technology...

All they needed to do was give Families bracelets with matching bar codes.
Sweet Jesus, the airline industry does it with luggage every day!

[Haggis for Breakfast]

17. ANYBODY buying this BS ?

They never intended to keep track of these children from the beginning.

It speaks VOLUMES about what they thought the American public would tolerate.

FUCK YOU TRUMP, MILLER, POMPEO, MULVANEY. And Pence -- you are NOT a christian, no matter how much you proselytize, you're just another lying bastard.

[tclambert]

19. Paper and pencil don't exist?

I remember when they Bush W. people in Iraq said they didn't have the accounting capabilities to keep track of all the cash they "lost." They had never heard of writing a receipt.