Government has lost 1,500 immigrant children

[Trausti]

Officials at the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees refugee resettlement, began making calls last year to determine what had happened to 7,635 children the government had helped place between last October and the end of the year.

From these calls, officials learned that 6,075 children remained with their sponsors. Twenty-eight had run away, five had been removed from the United States and 52 had relocated to live with a nonsponsor. The rest were unaccounted for, giving rise to the 1,475 number. It is possible that some of the adult sponsors simply chose not to respond to the agency.

Authoritarian Apology Syndrome

 

[Trausti]

Ivanka Trump tweets 'tone deaf' picture cuddling son after US agents take children from families

I think we are witnessing a resurgence of "compassionate conservatism".

The media is a joke. Where was the criticism of Michelle Obama hugging her children when this was happening during the Obama administration?

Trump Derangement Syndrome in three acts:

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

Authoritarian Apology Syndrome

Great image you came up with for the caption.

 

[Copernicus]

The OP is faux outrage over fake news.

Across social media, there have been confusing reports of what happened to these immigrant children. Here are some answers.

Did the Trump administration separate nearly 1,500 immigrant children from their parents at the border, and then lose track of them?
No. The government did realize last year that it lost track of 1,475 migrant children it had placed with sponsors in the United States, according to testimony before a Senate subcommittee last month. But those children had arrived alone at the Southwest border — without their parents.

Officials at the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees refugee resettlement, began making calls last year to determine what had happened to 7,635 children the government had helped place between last October and the end of the year.

From these calls, officials learned that 6,075 children remained with their sponsors. Twenty-eight had run away, five had been removed from the United States and 52 had relocated to live with a nonsponsor. The rest were unaccounted for, giving rise to the 1,475 number. It is possible that some of the adult sponsors simply chose not to respond to the agency.

Trump Derangement Syndrome

It is worth reading the entire NY Times article rather than the select bits that Trausti posted, since he is only interested in whitewashing the ugly details. Note that Trausti created the false impression by naming his link "Trump Derangement Syndrome", whereas the article's actual title was roughly the same question that was asked in the OP: Did the Trump Administration Separate Immigrant Children From Parents and Lose Them?. Moreover, the article does not call the story "fake news". It said that there was some false information being spread in social media. However, the OP was based on a Snopes fact-checking article, not hysterical social media rumors. Moreover, the source that Snopes labeled "true" was originally also reported in the NY Times. Finally, the OP itself does not express "outrage". It is a short post written in very neutral language.

The main point made in the article is that some of the government has reported losing track of large numbers of children in its system long before this latest report. The report of "lost children" isn't the real issue here. It is the new policy by the Trump administration that Trump is now falsely trying to blame Democrats for. Here is the lead in to the story referenced by Trausti:

President Trump over the weekend falsely blamed Democrats for a “horrible law” separating immigrant children from their parents. In fact, his own administration had just announced this policy earlier this month.

His comments followed days of growing alarm that federal authorities have lost track of more than 1,000 immigrant children, mostly from Central America, giving rise to hashtags like #WhereAreTheChildren and claims that children are being ripped from their parents’ arms at the border and then being lost.

But the president is not the only one spreading wrong information. Across social media, there have been confusing reports of what happened to these immigrant children. Here are some answers...

Trump's new policy is punitive. It is expressly designed to frighten people away from seeking legal asylum in the US by depriving parents of children, and it affects people openly asking for asylum, not just people trying to sneak into the country. Here is a 10-minute report by Chris Hayes that interviews legal workers who have firsthand knowledge of what is going on. This is not "false information" being spread in social media:

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