Because you can definitely cut down on the amount of illegal immigration if you just … lose … some of those immigrants:
In 2014, at least 10 trafficking victims, including eight minors, were discovered during a raid by federal and local law enforcement in Portman’s home state of Ohio. As FRONTLINE examined in the recent documentary Trafficked in America, HHS had released several minors to the traffickers. The committee said the case was due to policies and procedures that were “inadequate to protect the children in the agency’s care.”
[…] Between October 2016 and December 2017, he said, the agency was unable to locate almost 1,500 out of the 7,635 minors that it attempted to reach — or about 19 percent. Over two dozen had run away, according to Wagner, who said the agency did not have the capacity to track them down.
Perhaps before we expand on tearing more minors away from their families when they enter the country illegally (and are still being processed or have applied for refugee status), we should fix the current system to not lose kids or discover that, whoops, they’ve been handed over to human traffickers. A crazy, radical idea, I know, but, jeez.
HHS Official Says Agency Lost Track of Nearly 1,500 Unaccompanied Minors
A top official from the Department of Health and Human Services came under fire in a congressional hearing on Thursday over how the agency tracks unaccompanied minors after they are released to family or other sponsors inside the United States.
You're still assuming this isn't deliberate…
+Colm Buckley I most emphatically do not assume that