{"id":378108,"date":"2018-09-21T21:05:44","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T20:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/department-of-health-and-human-services-lost-track-of-another-1500-immigrant-children\/"},"modified":"2018-09-21T21:05:44","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T20:05:44","slug":"department-of-health-and-human-services-lost-track-of-another-1500-immigrant-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/department-of-health-and-human-services-lost-track-of-another-1500-immigrant-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Department of Health and Human Services lost track of another 1,500 immigrant children"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h4>Notes on Trump\u2019s war against immigrants<\/h4>\n<h2>Department of Health and Human Services lost track of another 1,500 immigrant children<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    our reporters<br \/>\n    <br \/>21 September 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<h4>HHS lost track of another 1,500 immigrant children<\/h4>\n<p>For the second time this year, the Department of Health and Human Services has notified Congress that it cannot locate about 1,500 children taken into custody by immigration authorities and transferred to the jurisdiction of HHS to provide the needed care. HHS officials told Senate staffers that case managers could not locate 1,488 children when they called placement centers and foster families between April and June. The figure represents 13 percent of all unaccompanied children processed by the federal government during that period.<\/p>\n<p>In April, HHS revealed that it had lost track of 1,475 children in late 2017, in a scenario reminiscent of the current one. These children too were unaccompanied minors placed with foster families or foster care agencies through the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that HHS, which placed these unaccompanied minors with sponsors, doesn\u2019t know the whereabouts of nearly 1,500 of them is very troubling,\u201d Republican Senator Rob Portman of Ohio, chairman of the Senate committee overseeing HHS, said, stating the obvious. \u201cMany of these kids are vulnerable to trafficking and abuse, and to not take responsibility for their safety is unacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An HHS spokesman claimed that most of the children had been placed with family members, and that these adult sponsors had not responded or could not be reached. Left unstated was that many of the \u201csponsors\u201d are themselves undocumented immigrants, who could have been seized by Immigration and Customs Enforcement or have moved to avoid ICE persecution. An ICE official told the committee&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/09\/21\/immi-s21.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Notes on Trump\u2019s war against immigrants Department of Health and Human Services lost track of another 1,500 immigrant children By our reporters 21 September 2018 HHS lost track of another 1,500 immigrant children For the second time this year, the Department of Health and Human Services has notified Congress that it cannot locate about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-378108","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}