CHILDREN/HHS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The Trump administration again could not determine where nearly 1,500 immigrant children were over a three-month period this year, the second time in less than a year that it admitted it had lost track of hundreds of undocumented children released from US custody. The findings were released on Tuesday [9-18-18] by a bipartisan group of senators who have been working on the issue, as they propose legislation that would make the government responsible for these children even after they are released. The lack of certainty about where the children are does not necessarily mean they are lost. It could be as simple as no one in the home picking up the phone when Health and Human Services called or not responding to a message. It’s possible that some of the families are undocumented and avoiding the government. But it is also possible the children could have ended up with traffickers or people meaning to do them harm. From April 1 to June 30, HHS made follow-up calls to 11,254 immigrant children it had released from its custody, and could not determine where 1,488 of them were, roughly 13%, according to the findings released by the Senate homeland committee’s investigation subcommittee. Twenty-five of the children had run away from the adults they had been placed with.”
–Tal Kopan, “Trump administration admits it lost track of nearly 1,500 immigrant children,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, September 19, 2018 4:31 pm