Thursday, April 26, 2018

Federal Agencies Lost Track of Hundreds of Migrant Children Placed With Sponsors

A top official with the Department of Health and Human Services is expected to tell members of Congress on Thursday that the agency lost track of nearly 1,500 migrant children the agency placed with sponsors in the United States, according to prepared testimony obtained by The New York Times.

The official, Steven Wagner, acting assistant secretary of the agency’s Administration for Children and Families, is expected to disclose during testimony to a Senate Homeland Security subcommittee that the agency learned of the missing children after placing calls to the people who took responsibility for them when they were released from government custody.

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