Federal Agencies Lost Track of Nearly 1,500 Migrant Children Placed With Sponsors

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This is an extraordinary scandal. One in five migrant kids recently placed by HHS into “foster care or whatever” have been lost.

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Federal Agencies Lost Track of Nearly 1,500 Migrant Children Placed With Sponsors

By Ron Nixon

April 26, 2018

WASHINGTON — A top official with the Department of Health and Human Services told members of Congress on Thursday that the agency had lost track of nearly 1,500 migrant children it placed with sponsors in the United States, raising concerns they could end up in the hands of human traffickers or be used as laborers by people posing as relatives.

The official, Steven Wagner, the acting assistant secretary of the agency’s Administration for Children and Families, disclosed during testimony before a Senate homeland security subcommittee that the agency had learned of the missing children after placing calls to the people who took responsibility for them when they were released from government custody.

The children were taken into government care after they showed up alone at the Southwest border. Most of the children are from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, and were fleeing drug cartels, gang violence and domestic abuse, government data shows.

From last October to the end of the year, officials at the agency’s Office of Refugee Resettlement tried to reach 7,635 children and their sponsors, Mr. Wagner testified. From these calls, officials learned that 6,075 children remained with their sponsors. Twenty-eight had run away, five had been removed from the United States and 52 had relocated to live with a nonsponsor. ... But officials at the agency were unable to determine with certainty the whereabouts of 1,475 children, Mr. Wagner said.

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1. It's a freaking humanitarian tragedy.

It's crazy and heartbreaking. Their parents left what little they had to try to give their little ones a chance at a better life and they may actually end up with human traffickers.

I hope someone files a complaint with the UN just to bring attention to this disaster and these monsters.

[DURHAM D]

2. So how many do you think have been human trafficked?

50% 75% All of them?

[Uncle Joe]

3. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread mahatmakanejeeves

[appalachiablue]

4. K & R. Lose 1,500 children, how and why is that possible. Horrible.

[stuffmatters]

5. The Trump Administration is beyond savage. This story needs to be screamed on the MSM News.

Over & over on the Nightly national& local news.. Or the MSM is complicit. Period.

[wiley]

6. It happens all the time

And each time it clearly demonstrates that Republicans still believe that children of different cultures or with darker shades of skin or from impoverished countries are not valuable human beings. Thank you for sharing this story. We need to be outraged by this every day.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

7. Snopes: Did the U.S. Government Lose Track of 1,475 Migrant Children?

Did the U.S. Government Lose Track of 1,475 Migrant Children?

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