The secretary of Health and Human Services says ABOUT 3000 children were separated from their undocumented parents. That’s an estimate. They don’t really know how many children are in their custody. It’s chaos as several different agencies are trying to match children with parents, now that President Trump changed his mind about the whole thing.
Amazon sells millions of items, and can tell you exactly how many of each item they have in stock. But that’s IMPORTANT stuff, like doorknobs, hammers, cameras, and K-cups. When it comes to children, these little persons made in the image of God, the US government can only say, “Around 3000. We really don’t know. Give or take.”
The Customs and Border Protection agency assigned a “family identification number” to parents and children. But after transferring the children to a different government agency, Customs agents then deleted those records, according to two Homeland Security officials. Oops. It probably seemed like a good idea at the time. So the names of adults and children, though in government computers, aren’t listed as belonging together.
Someday, they’ll get the children all reunited with their parents, give or take a couple dozen. Maybe more.
Close enough? Sure. After all, they’re just children, and not even American children; their parents can’t vote. Let’s not get too upset if a few dozen are lost in the system. In fact, let it be a lesson to those who try to enter the US illegally. You’re not getting your kid back. Stuff happens. Get over it.
The Zero Tolerance policy, like the initial Muslim ban, was put together without advance notice to the agencies which would be involved in implementing it. So they had to make it up as they went, and the different agencies involved weren’t necessarily cooperating with each other. So, as they say, what could go wrong?
