The government is refusing to release new stats on migrant children from separated families

[spanone]

(CNN)How many immigrant families have been reunited since a judge ordered the US government to halt most family separations at the border?

And how many kids from separated immigrant families are still in government custody?

We don't know, because officials aren't saying.

It's been a week since they released a tally of how many kids from separated families remain in government custody.

And officials have repeatedly declined to respond to questions about how many families have been reunited.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/03/us/separated-families-countdown/index.html

[elleng]

1. It's KAFKA-esque.

[Solly Mack]

2. They'll become ghost prisoners.

There - but no record. No accounting for and no accountability.

Anything can happen to them.

Anything.

[bitterross]

3. It's because they don't really know.

They don't have a flipping clue. They know that if they make estimates and say a number they'll be held to it. So they're not saying anything.