1,488 MIGRANT KIDS GO MISSING IN THE US

September 20, 2018

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-By Joseph Omoniyi
about 1,500 migrant children who were placed in foster homes.
The health and human services department disclosed this to the Senate staffers that case managers could not find 1,488 children after they made follow-up calls to check on their safety from April through June.
According to the HHS,this meant that, 13 per cent of all unaccompanied children the administration moved out of shelters and foster homes during that time.
The agency earlier disclosed that it had lost track of 1,475 children late last year, as it came under fire at a Senate hearing in April.
The lawmakers however in their response asked HHS officials how they had strengthened child protection policies since it came to light that the agency previously had rolled back safeguards meant to keep Central American children from ending up in the hands of human traffickers.
“The fact that HHS, which placed these unaccompanied minors with sponsors, doesn’t know the whereabouts of nearly 1,500 of them is very troubling,” Republican Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio, the panel’s chair, said.
The Senate also stated that many of these kids are vulnerable to trafficking and abuse, and to not take responsibility for their safety is unacceptable.