05-28-2018, 10:19 PM
(05-28-2018, 09:01 PM)Maggot Wrote: The children were unaccompanied minors from various Central American countries who reached the southern U.S. border between 2013 and 2016. The total 1475 is the number of children "lost" during those years.
That's not accurate and really distorts the scale of the issue.
The investigation into "lost" or "unaccounted-for" unaccompanied migrant children was specific to the first quarter of fiscal year 2018 (October through December 2017) only, NOT the three year period prior to Trump's presidency.
The Facts:
During that three month period, approximately 21,000 unaccompanied migrant minors arrived at the southwest border.
The government placed 7,635 of them with relatives or other custodians/sponsors.
An investigation for that period conducted by the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees refugee resettlement, found that:
--6,075 of the children remained with their sponsors,
--28 had run away,
--5 had been removed from the United States,
--52 had relocated to live with a nonsponsor.
Leaving 1,475 children -- whereabouts unknown, which is the number some refer to as "lost" or "unaccounted-for" by the government.
Source: Congressional testimony by Steven Wagner, the acting assistant secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services' Administration for Children and Families.
Refs:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/05/...-says.html
http://raycomgroup.worldnow.com/story/38...ounted-for
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/26/us/po...ssing.html ,
That equates to 19% unaccounted-for children in the quarter, which isn't substantially different than the percentage of government-placed migrant children who were unaccounted-for at the end of previous years. In 2016, the percentage was 16%, for example.