America has a long history of separating children from their families.
Earlier this week, new elements of President Donald Trump’s immigration policy dominated national headlines. Critics who have feared the worst now know that the administration has seemingly displaced nearly 1,500 children detained near the southern border and released to sponsors.
A Health and Human Services (HHS) official revealed this during a shocking Senate testimony last month. Steve Wagner, acting assistant secretary with the Administration for Children and Families of HHS, claimed that once the children were handed over to a sponsor, the agency wasn’t legally responsible.
Wagner testified in October and December that an estimated 7,635 children were placed under HHS care, according to Refinery 29. The majority of the children — 6,075 children — received sponsors while the other 1,475 children were unable to be found.
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