TIJUANA, MEXICO – APRIL 30:
Mirna Lastenia Aldana Diaz holds her son Joshua Gaciel and prays during a prayer service held for the group of Central American migrants at the San Ysidro border crossing while they wait to walk to the United States border and have their cases processed on April 30, 2018 in Tijuana, Mexico. Hundreds of migrants from Central America traveled for about a month across Mexico to reach the United States border. Many of the migrants will seek asylum.
Credit: Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post

How does one “lose” almost 1,500 children?

Last month, Steven Wagner, the acting assistant secretary of the administration for children and families (ACF), announced at a Senate hearing that the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement — which is to say, an office he oversees — was “unable to determine with certainty the whereabouts of 1,475 children between October and December.”

As Mother Jones reports:

The Trump administration is seeking to criminally prosecute everyone who crosses the US-Mexico border, including parents. The […]

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