But liberals had a meltdown all weekend over it, even creating a hashtag for it #WhereAreTheChildren.
Via Fox News:
A U.S. Health and Human Services official played down an April report that the agency had lost track of some 1,500 immigrant children who entered the United States unaccompanied, Reuters reported Monday, citing a department official’s statement.
The HHS’s Office of Refugee Resettlement had gone beyond its legal requirements in late 2017 when it contacted the sponsors who had taken in those unaccompanied immigrant children, Deputy Secretary Eric Hargan said.
He said the April testimony had been “misleading.”
“These children are not ‘lost’; their sponsors – who are usually parents or family members and in all cases have been vetted for criminality and ability to provide for them – simply did not respond or could not be reached when this voluntary call was made,” Hargan said.
Hargan said the sponsors were often illegal immigrants themselves and would not answer the ORR’s check-in calls.
He blamed the recent surge in separations of unaccompanied children and their families on loopholes in immigration law.