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brooklynite

(94,598 posts)
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 02:08 PM Jun 2018

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

Source: McClatchy

WASHINGTON
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 on their well-being. “You can bet that the numbers are higher. It doesn’t really give you a real picture.”

Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/white-house/article213430099.html

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Exclusive: US officials likely lost track of nearly 6,000 unaccompanied migrant kids (Original Post) brooklynite Jun 2018 OP
K&R for visibility. nt tblue37 Jun 2018 #1
WTF is going on? lark Jun 2018 #2
"Lost track of" or "sold to the highest bidder"? nt Maven Jun 2018 #3
Strong possibility. Wellstone ruled Jun 2018 #4
They are doing the same with the kids as they do with the money. dixiegrrrrl Jun 2018 #20
Something smells to high hell. Wellstone ruled Jun 2018 #21
I would not trust any number the Gov. provides. dixiegrrrrl Jun 2018 #24
I think (hope) most are simply afraid of the goverment keeping tabs on them Bradical79 Jun 2018 #28
This was a game plan from the start. Wellstone ruled Jun 2018 #29
Seen that coming with Trump and the gop. They are a sick "party" rockfordfile Jun 2018 #8
Sold by Trump... no doubt. Demsrule86 Jun 2018 #12
Ya know, when Mr. dixie asked that when we first heard the 1500 number.. dixiegrrrrl Jun 2018 #18
Lost track of or their sponsors don't want to have anything to do with this corrupt government? Pacifist Patriot Jun 2018 #5
Yeah the kids who went to sponsors are the lucky ones. lagomorph777 Jun 2018 #7
Is Jeffrey Epstein one of the sponsors? LiberalArkie Jun 2018 #6
Incompetent fuckheads Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2018 #9
'Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.'--Margaret Atwood dixiegrrrrl Jun 2018 #19
Well, not under this administration Dan Jun 2018 #10
These are the next generation of DACA kids Yupster Jul 2018 #37
There should be not fooled Jun 2018 #11
That's going to be hung around that Stupid Fuck's Cha Jun 2018 #13
And he is not capable of caring one whit. dixiegrrrrl Jun 2018 #25
Right.. Fraud is a sociopath.. but Cha Jun 2018 #27
America tracks pets bucolic_frolic Jun 2018 #14
Kick and recommend for visibility bronxiteforever Jun 2018 #15
I would like to see Trump and his band of Fascist criminals brought before judges in the geretogo Jun 2018 #16
A word substitution, please: Nuclear Pyle Jun 2018 #17
Put Trump's Grand kids in those camps. ALL of Trump's grand kids stay there trueblue2007 Jun 2018 #22
So the solution to harming innocent children is to harm more innocent children? Jedi Guy Jul 2018 #31
Seems a bit half-baked to take an obviously visceral reaction LanternWaste Jul 2018 #32
This message was self-deleted by its author Jedi Guy Jul 2018 #33
Seems equally half-baked to do nothing but troll the forums to make passive-aggressive posts. N/T Jedi Guy Jul 2018 #34
No civility, Ever, this is why we Rage. sarcasmo Jun 2018 #23
So basically the Pizza Hut child trafficking thing was true, except the Trump admin is doing it. ucrdem Jun 2018 #26
holy crap, wtflh? hibbing Jul 2018 #30
This has been going on for years. B2G Jul 2018 #35
OP from June 19? red dog 1 Jul 2018 #36

lark

(23,105 posts)
2. WTF is going on?
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 02:16 PM
Jun 2018

WTF are they doing with these thousands and thousands and thousands of little children? Why do they want to keep them here indefinitely? What cruel vicious plan are they hiding? drumpfs best friend is a convicted pedophile!

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
20. They are doing the same with the kids as they do with the money.
Fri Jun 29, 2018, 09:58 PM
Jun 2018

You know money launderers move money from one bank to a LLC ( that they have created) and from there to another bank, another LLC or 2-3 in a row.

They are moving the kids the same way,,from state to state to facility etc. without any records.

You don't do that much moving, go to all that trouble, unless there is a large payoff at the end.

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
24. I would not trust any number the Gov. provides.
Sat Jun 30, 2018, 12:54 AM
Jun 2018


It's gonna take awhile to uncover all this, unless we get whistlblowers.

And time is something the the kids cannot afford.
 

Bradical79

(4,490 posts)
28. I think (hope) most are simply afraid of the goverment keeping tabs on them
Sat Jun 30, 2018, 12:12 PM
Jun 2018

Of course it's probable at least some ended up in the hands of sex traffickers. One is too many. Either way, we need a serious investigation, but it will be extremely difficult to get significant co-operation from anyone due to current policy.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
29. This was a game plan from the start.
Sat Jun 30, 2018, 12:27 PM
Jun 2018

Did quite a bit of Volunteering with a Non Profit in the Eighties. Mostly Family related issues in neighborhoods with extreme poverty. Seen the dis-pare,heard the dis-pare in the voices,personally have so much respect for all those Social Workers who are just buried with clients. And yes,kids get lost in the system and usually it is the result of a clerical error.

What we are seeing is this,these Clerical Errors are by design to produce fodder for Political Purposes.

Please do not for get what happened in Chile and Argentina decades ago.

We have some very sickco advisors around Trump. And these same advisors are being backed up in the Alt Right Media by certain Churches. They could give a rat's ass about Brown Skinned People.

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
18. Ya know, when Mr. dixie asked that when we first heard the 1500 number..
Fri Jun 29, 2018, 09:43 PM
Jun 2018

I told him he had a very dark mind. He agreed.

That musta been just a couple of days before the kidnappings/concentration camp/for profit adoption agencies news all tumbled out in the past 10daysor so.

Had to go apologize to him.

Pacifist Patriot

(24,653 posts)
5. Lost track of or their sponsors don't want to have anything to do with this corrupt government?
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 02:33 PM
Jun 2018

If I took in an unaccompanied minor, there is no way in hell I would tell the Trump administration where that kid was. Try to find his or her parents or other relatives? Hell, yes. Provide for the child's every need, absolutely. Nurture with affection, you bet. Let our government know how to find him or her. Uh uh.

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
19. 'Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.'--Margaret Atwood
Fri Jun 29, 2018, 09:53 PM
Jun 2018

by which I mean...not incompetent, they just did not bother to track them. That would produce evidence.

Dan

(3,570 posts)
10. Well, not under this administration
Tue Jun 19, 2018, 10:22 PM
Jun 2018

but certainly in the future, we will be looking at 6000+ new American citizens. It is only the right thing to do - after screwing them over. Oh, I forgot to mention all the money that these kids and their lawyers will get - when they file suit and win against the POS Trump administration.

Yupster

(14,308 posts)
37. These are the next generation of DACA kids
Sun Jul 8, 2018, 04:43 PM
Jul 2018

Fifteen years from now they will be the kids who were brought here from no fault of their own who know no country but the US.

Is there a solution to this? Parents sending their kids to the US with coyotes is very unsafe but it seems to be the way to beat the US immigration system.

Any solutions out there?

not fooled

(5,801 posts)
11. There should be
Wed Jun 20, 2018, 09:31 PM
Jun 2018

immediate DNA testing of all separated family members, with results put into a database to allow for reunification.

Just as was done in Argentina for their Disappeared.

Molecular geneticists should join lawyers on the frontlines of helping these families. Don't leave it to the dumpsters to obfuscate results or lose samples.

geretogo

(1,281 posts)
16. I would like to see Trump and his band of Fascist criminals brought before judges in the
Sat Jun 23, 2018, 03:27 PM
Jun 2018

Hague courts and found guilty of crimes against humanity .

trueblue2007

(17,228 posts)
22. Put Trump's Grand kids in those camps. ALL of Trump's grand kids stay there
Fri Jun 29, 2018, 11:30 PM
Jun 2018

Someone should put Trump's Grand kids in those camps. ALL of Trump's grand kids stay there till ALL the 6,000 children have been returned to their parents.
TURN ABOUT IS FAIR PLAY !!!!


Jedi Guy

(3,193 posts)
31. So the solution to harming innocent children is to harm more innocent children?
Mon Jul 2, 2018, 01:19 PM
Jul 2018

Yeah, no thanks. It's not their fault that he's their grandfather, and they have no ability to make him change how he behaves. Punishing a child for the sins of the father (or grandfather) is neither right nor just.

 

LanternWaste

(37,748 posts)
32. Seems a bit half-baked to take an obviously visceral reaction
Mon Jul 2, 2018, 01:43 PM
Jul 2018

Seems a bit half-baked to take an obviously visceral reaction as a de facto statement of solution.

But I get it... it's often difficult to practice self-righteousness unless we practice literalism first.

Response to LanternWaste (Reply #32)

ucrdem

(15,512 posts)
26. So basically the Pizza Hut child trafficking thing was true, except the Trump admin is doing it.
Sat Jun 30, 2018, 02:17 AM
Jun 2018

State-sponsored human trafficking with invisible consumers of abducted children. Run by the US Justice Department.



If there's a more twisted, f'd-up way to run a country I don't know what it is.

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