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babylonsister

(171,070 posts) Tue Jun 19, 2018, 06:50 PM Jun 2018

Report: HHS 'Likely' Lost Track of Nearly 6,000 Unaccompanied Kids

https://www.thedailybeast.com/report-hhs-likely-lost-track-of-nearly-6000-unaccompanied-kids?ref=home

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Report: HHS ‘Likely’ Lost Track of Nearly 6,000 Unaccompanied Kids
PATRICK T. FALLON/ REUTERS

The Office of Refugee Resettlement may have lost track of nearly 6,000 resettled immigrant minors, according to a Tuesday report from McClatchy’s. Although federal officials disclosed last month that the sponsors of about 1,475 minors did not return the administration’s calls, McClatchy’s reports that those numbers came from only a three-month snapshot in 2017. Given the department’s estimate that 14 percent of families did not return calls, McClatchy’s said that it is “likely” that the Office has lost track of around 5,945 of the more than 42,000 children placed with sponsors in fiscal year 2017. The Department of Health and Human services notes that it is not their responsibility to track the children once they have been placed, and advocates argue that it is likely that some families are deliberately avoiding HHS calls now that sponsors have faced background checks and deportation.

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Report: HHS 'Likely' Lost Track of Nearly 6,000 Unaccompanied Kids (Original Post) babylonsister Jun 2018 OP

whow. I heard about this today. Something horrible is going on riversedge Jun 2018 #1

This is misleading, probably deliberately so, for daily beast's usual click bait PSPS Jun 2018 #2

'Cept the article came from McClatchy originally. nt babylonsister Jun 2018 #3

Yes, and put through the "click bait" creative editing process at daily beast PSPS Jun 2018 #4

riversedge

(70,242 posts)

1. whow. I heard about this today. Something horrible is going on

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 06:59 PM

Jun 2018

PSPS

(13,600 posts)

2. This is misleading, probably deliberately so, for daily beast's usual click bait

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 07:40 PM

Jun 2018

First, these are unaccompanied children, most of whom arrived two to four years ago from Central America. They are not part of the trump kidnapping spree that's happening now.

Second, the way they "track" the kids is they send a postcard or leave a voice mail for the family with whom the child has been placed. This is usually a member of the child's extended family. Assuming they actually receive the message, they are probably loath to respond because they're afraid, and there's usually no follow-up on those who don't reply. The fact is that most, if not all, of those "6,000" kids are just fine.

In this climate, would you willingly call HHS if your refugee cousin were staying with you?

babylonsister

(171,070 posts)

3. 'Cept the article came from McClatchy originally. nt

Reply to PSPS (Reply #2)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 07:58 PM

Jun 2018

PSPS

(13,600 posts)

4. Yes, and put through the "click bait" creative editing process at daily beast

Reply to babylonsister (Reply #3)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 09:51 PM

Jun 2018

What they omitted from the original story because it wouldn't hone their edge of deception:

Federal officials said the children were not actually lost, but their sponsors didn’t respond to phone calls checking on them. They emphasized that Office of Refugee Resettlement is no longer legally responsible for the children once they were placed in a sponsor’s custody.

Since 2014, tens of thousands of unaccompanied children have been apprehended during a surge of Salvadoran, Honduran and Guatemalan mothers and children who have flooded the U.S. border fleeing violence and poverty.

Unaccompanied children are generally turned over to the custody of ORR, which will either care for them in a shelter or release them to a family member.
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar told McClatchy in Miami that 50 percent of the kids end up with their parents as their sponsors.

Like I said, this is not related in any way to trump's kidnapping/hostage orgy, but daily beast sure wants you to think so.

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