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How do you lose migrant children?
If I understand correctly it’s something like separating them from their parents, placing them with sponsors, and then not checking up – lost.

Federal government has likely lost track of more than 8,000 unaccompanied migrant children.


The administration only tried to contact 7,635 sponsors, but placed more than 42,497 unaccompanied children with sponsors in 2017. This looks like the Trump administration has lost 19.3% or more than 8,000 unaccompanied migrant children.
In 2016, under President Barack Obama more than 52,000 children were placed with (sold to?) sponsors, so possibly even more children went “missing” in 2016.
An estimated 11% of the unaccompanied children are placed with (sold to?) non-relatives (or foster “care”).

According to deputy assistant attorney general under Obama Leon Fresco, the reported numbers are much too low because the sponsors were called after only 30 days:

Which means the number of lost kids are being dramatically underrepresented. 1,500 is only half the story. It’s one year and we’re not even talking about the entire Trump administration.

Frank Sharry, executive director of America’s Voice, said:

What’s happened is that ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] has a new policy of going after sponsors. The bigger story if not that they are losing people - it's that ICE is terrorizing people.

According to federal officials the children aren’t lost, but their sponsors didn’t respond to phone calls. So couldn’t be located; is that different than “lost”?
They emphasized that Office of Refugee Resettlement is no longer responsible for the children after they have been sold to a sponsor. HHS officials say it’s not the administration’s responsibility to locate children after they’ve been placed in the custody of a family member or sponsor: https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/white-house/article213430099.html
(archived here: http://archive.li/4SbCK)


Sponsors of migrant children are often forced to pay exorbitant fees to get them out of detention facilities.
The Office of Refugee Resettlement demanded $1,800 from Mr. Parada to fly [his niece] Anyi from Houston to Los Angeles.
Obviously it’s the tax payer that has to pay for the more than $600 a day it costs to “detain” a migrant child: https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a22021931/migrant-child-families-pay-huge-fees/


United States authorities have separated thousands of children, including toddlers, from their parents.
In June of this year, the UN urged the Trump administration’s to immediate halt this practice as it violates international law.

Ravina Shamdasani of the UN human rights office said this:

amounts to arbitrary and unlawful interference in family life, and is a serious violation of the rights of the child.
I call on the United States to immediately end the practice of forcible separation of these children.
The U.S. should immediately halt this practice of separating families and stop criminalizing what should at most be an administrative offense — that of irregular entry or stay in the U.S.

She added that the US is the only country in the world that has not ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child, but separating and detaining children also breached its obligations under other international human rights conventions it has joined.

Nikki R. Haley showed how the Trump administration deals with criticism:

Once again, the United Nations shows its hypocrisy by calling out the United States while it ignores the reprehensible human rights records of several members of its own Human Rights Council.
Neither the United Nations nor anyone else will dictate how the United States upholds its borders.

President Donald has publicly agreed that breaking up families is wrong, but claims the Democrats in Congress had caused it.
Homeland Security officials have since lied that they don’t separate families: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/05/world/americas/us-un-migrant-children-families.html


After the criticism on Monday by Al Hussein, the Trump administration officially left the UN Human Rights Council.
This is the first time in history a member leaves the UN Human Rights Council voluntarily.

At a press conference, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and US envoy to the UN Nikki Haley announced the decision:

The US is officially withdrawing from the UN Human Rights Council.
[It’s a] hypocritical and self-serving organization that makes a mockery of human rights.
American participation is the last shred of credibility the council has. That is precisely why we must leave.
The Human Rights Council is a poor defender of human rights. Worse than that, it has become an exercise in shameless hypocrisy.

Some say that it’s about Israel, but I don’t believe it is, because in this way, they are actually bringing attention to Israel’s human rights violations in Gaza.

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu thanked the US for the “courageous decision” to leave the body:

The US decision to leave this prejudiced body is an unequivocal statement that enough is enough. Israel welcomes the American announcement.

https://www.rt.com/usa/430256-us-quits-human-rights-council


See the press conference with Mike Pompeo and Nikki Haley.