ruffboijuliaburnsides:

ruffboijuliaburnsides:

Important twitter thread. 5/28/2018. (SOURCE)

update: Some info sources about this

NY Times article from 4/26/2018

Snopes article about the “misplaced” children

And some context via the Snopes article (emphasis mine):

We note that this passage means that ORR made some effort to ascertain the status of children placed with sponsors and were unable to determine where some 1,475 of those children were. This doesn’t mean those children are “missing” in the sense of being outside the home, control, or care of their guardians, but rather that the ORR is unaware of their exact whereabouts at the moment.

We reached out to HHS and were told by a spokesman that when children cross into the U.S. alone, their custody is transferred from the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees immigration enforcement, to HHS’s Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR). Children are then released to a sponsor in the U.S. who is selected and approved by ORR. These sponsors undergo background checks, and although the majority of such sponsors (85%) are parents or immediate family members, HHS told us, the remainder are typically more distant relatives or non-relatives whom the children had some previous relationship with.

Reblogging with some updated info now that I’m not mobile.