Report: US lacked technology to track separated families
Source: Associated Press
Astrid Galvan, Associated Press
Updated 4:44 pm CST, Wednesday, November 27, 2019
PHOENIX (AP) The U.S. government separated thousands of families despite knowing it lacked the technology to document and track their whereabouts, according to a report released Wednesday by an internal government watchdog.
The problem resulted in some parents languishing in custody for weeks without knowing the location of their children.
The report by the Department of Homeland Securitys Office of Inspector General found the agency lacked proper systems when Border Patrol agents took children from parents set to be criminally prosecuted for illegal entry.
. . .
The problem meant agents had to delete prior entries documenting families who arrived together and replace them with references to single adults and unaccompanied children.
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BigmanPigman
(51,675 posts)as they had planned of it didn't get a strong backlash from the American population when the media made us aware of these outrageous practices. How can S. Miller and his pals stand themselves?...
Stargazer09
(2,132 posts)I refuse to believe technology was a problem. They could have used a handwritten notebook to document everything. The truth is, they did not care. They did not want anything recorded, because they did not consider them to be human beings.
Lack of technology is just their latest excuse for the evil they perpetrated.
SunSeeker
(51,826 posts)Efilroft Sul
(3,586 posts)mpcamb
(2,884 posts)pnwmom
(109,028 posts)Walmart or Target would have done a much better job.
You wouldn't go to war without weapons. They shouldn't have taken on this project without the technology already in place.
C Moon
(12,227 posts)God damned criminals. The GOP is being run by Russia now.
SunSeeker
(51,826 posts)What they lacked was human decency.
Crash2Parties
(6,017 posts)rampartc
(5,458 posts)shirts with numbers or any of 1000 ways that prisoners and patients have been tracked since ancient rome?
Lochloosa
(16,086 posts)I call bullshit. You have to WANT to keep track of them.
localroger
(3,636 posts)The lesson of Nuremberg for many people is "don't record your war crimes."
dalton99a
(81,709 posts)https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1039181
Ford_Prefect
(7,944 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,570 posts)This is a BS story to cover up something else.
SKKY
(11,840 posts)DHS failed to use the technology that is already available. It was negligence, not lack of technology. Big, big difference.
Talitha
(6,658 posts)All they needed to do was give Families bracelets with matching bar codes.
Sweet Jesus, the airline industry does it with luggage every day!
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)They never intended to keep track of these children from the beginning.
It speaks VOLUMES about what they thought the American public would tolerate.
FUCK YOU TRUMP, MILLER, POMPEO, MULVANEY. And Pence -- you are NOT a christian, no matter how much you proselytize, you're just another lying bastard.
tclambert
(11,087 posts)I remember when they Bush W. people in Iraq said they didn't have the accounting capabilities to keep track of all the cash they "lost." They had never heard of writing a receipt.