On the day the Trump admin. said it would reunite migrant families with the help of a 'central database,' an official admitted privately the government only had enough info to reconnect 60 parents with their kids, according to emails obtained by NBCNews.
On June 20, 2018, President Donald Trump ended his separation policy by executive order amidst immense public pressure.
Fitzgerald asked for"alien numbers" of separated parents to be filled into a spreadsheet of 2,219 children, along with whether or not the parent was already deported, among other information. Alien numbers are assigned to every migrant apprehended by Border Patrol and are how the government tracks them.
Fitzgerald wrote back to Albence, confirming HHS did not have a way to connect the thousands of children to their parents. He said he had information for a handful of parents,"about 60." Former DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and other government officials repeatedly claimed that the Trump administration was keeping track of separations. In a June 19, 2018, press conference at the White House, Nielsen insisted all separated children were being tracked.
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