Via MSNBC, stats on 2,551 children ages 5-17 originally identified as being separated from parents

[Miles Archer]

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Court filing: Of 2,551 children ages 5-17 originally identified as being separated from parents, 572 remain in the custody of HHS.

Of those, 410 have parents who were deported and 68 have parents released into the US with whom contact has not yet been made - @JuliaEAinsley

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[struggle4progress]

1. "So 572 - (410 + 68) 94 children still don't count"

[herding cats]

2. I'm thinking something may have happened to the parents of those 94 children.

They're apparently missing somehow after they stepped on us soil. Where are they if not deported or released?

[struggle4progress]

3. ... And that was the last time Tony or Karl or Shorty came to the house

And the family was liquidated later.
It was the last time.
We heard the shots in the night
But nobody knew next day what the trouble was ...

Litany for Dictatorships
Stephen Vincent Benet
1936

[herding cats]

6. Powerful and terrifying.

Sadly, it also seems to belong here now.

[oberliner]

5. I believe HHS said some of the parents had criminal records

Or that there were other safety concerns (i.e. people claiming to be parents that may not have been).

Not sure what the number was in that category or how that is all currently being sorted out.

[BigmanPigman]

4. I read that tRump wants the ACLU to pay for reuniting the families

and paying for the airfairs, etc. I couldn't despise him more if I tried.
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