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kentuck (87,154 posts)More incompetent than Katrina?A couple of weeks ago, it was reported that 1500 migrant children had been misplaced and nobody knew where they were? Our government is separating small children from their parents and many may never be united again. Most do not speak English and the incompetence of this trump Administration cannot be over-stated. It will not be easy to put the children back with their parents when many of them have been moved to other states, as their parents sit in jail. This makes the handling of Hurricane Katrina look like a smooth-running operation.https://upload.democraticunderground.com/100210759836
The Trump administration found itself facing a torrent of accusations over the weekend that the government had "lost" 1,475 minors, after month-old news resurfaced on Twitter and spawned a tangle of misinformation that has proved difficult to correct.But the two issues are not one and the same, and immigration advocates and the Trump administration alike have sought to correct the record on one key point: 1,475 children did not go missing after being separated from their parents at the border.Rather, the 1,475 children are classified by the government as unaccompanied alien children; they arrived at the US border alone....One month after the government placed those children with "sponsors" in the US — often their parents or close relatives — federal officials could not reach the sponsors by phone.Here's what Steven Wagner, the acting assistant secretary for children and families at the Department of Health and Human Services, said about the issue at a Senate hearing on April 26 (emphasis added):Quote"From October to December 2017, [the Office of Refugee Resettlement] attempted to reach 7,635 UAC and their sponsors. Of this number, ORR reached and received agreement to participate in the safety and well-being call from approximately 86 percent of sponsors. From these calls, ORR learned that 6,075 UAC remained with their sponsors. Twenty-eight UAC had run away, five had been removed from the United States, and 52 had relocated to live with a non-sponsor. ORR was unable to determine with certainty the whereabouts of 1,475 UAC."...But as Trump administration officials and some immigration lawyers have pointed out, there may be a very good reason that the federal government had difficulty contacting the children or their sponsors: They may not want to be found."We do place kids with families that are here themselves illegally," Wagner told reporters in a conference call on Tuesday. "So you can imagine that many of those would not choose to speak to a federal official calling on the phone."
"From October to December 2017, [the Office of Refugee Resettlement] attempted to reach 7,635 UAC and their sponsors. Of this number, ORR reached and received agreement to participate in the safety and well-being call from approximately 86 percent of sponsors. From these calls, ORR learned that 6,075 UAC remained with their sponsors. Twenty-eight UAC had run away, five had been removed from the United States, and 52 had relocated to live with a non-sponsor. ORR was unable to determine with certainty the whereabouts of 1,475 UAC."
Stupid lily-button. This has been covered ad nauseam.
KenCopulate, I suggest floating in the middle of Tug Fork because if you come ashore you may as well be divided.
The word “migrant” is being used in place of “immigrant.” A migrant is a person who moves from one place to another within a country.