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Thursday, June 21st, 2018

Exclusive: US officials likely lost track of nearly 6,000 unaccompanied migrant kids

Author:     Franco Ordoñez And Anita Kumar
Source:     McClatchy
Publication Date:     June 19, 2018 05:25 PM
 Link: Exclusive: US officials likely lost track of nearly 6,000 unaccompanied migrant kids
Stephan:   I think it is time to call a spade a spade.  The adult and child holding centers, I believe, should called be Trump Concentration Camps. According to Merriam-Webster, the meaning of a Concentration Camp is "a camp where persons (as prisoners of war, political prisoners, or refugees) are detained or confined..... Use of the word concentration comes from the idea of concentrating a group of people who are in some way undesirable in one place." Unlike the Nazis, who kept meticulous records the Trump Administration is so incompetent that they have no clear idea where the children swept up by this vile policy actually are. Here is some data.  

In this photo provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, people who’ve been taken into custody related to cases of illegal entry into the United States, sit in one of the cages at a facility in McAllen, Texas, Sunday, June 17, 2018. U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Rio Grande Valley Sector
Credit: McClatchy

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Trump administration has likely lost track of nearly 6,000 unaccompanied migrant children, thousands more than lawmakers were alerted to last month, according to a McClatchy review of federal data.

Federal officials acknowledged last month that nearly 1,500 unaccompanied minors arrived on the southern border alone without their parents and were placed with sponsors who did not keep in touch with federal officials, but those numbers were only a snapshot of a three- month period during the last fiscal year.

“There is a lot more,” said a field specialist who worked in the Office of Refugee Resettlement until earlier this year and was tasked with reaching out to sponsors and children to check […]

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2 Comments

  1. Giles Nowak on Thursday, June 21, 2018 at 5:17 am

    The “Zero Tolerance” policy was Trumps “final solution” to the illegal immigration problem.

  2. Charles on Thursday, June 21, 2018 at 11:06 am

    I’d like to see reporting on the children in this country in foster care, and how many of them are not accounted for. It’s sad to see what is happening at the border, but there is a larger issue on how our country treats the children of people convicted of crimes. We should really start a conversation around the entire scope of the problem, rather than focusing on the “concentration” of the results at the border.