This is, again, another lie. The story by @jacobsoboroff @JuliaEAinsley says they can’t find those parents, in part because the govnt declined to release that info earlier & the administration’s own non existing tracking systems. This tracks with three years of reporting by many https://twitter.com/geoffrbennett/status/1318971739175587842">https://twitter.com/geoffrben...

No one even had a contact for this dad, whose 18 month old was taken from him, until his lawyer got involved, knowing he’d be deported back to rural Guatemala without a phone.
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Immigrant-families-separated-at-border-struggle-12938759.php">https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/hous...

. @itscaitlinhd also explains this today:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/21/us/migrant-children-separated.html?smid=tw-share">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/2...

‘The administration fought for months against providing documentation on the families, arguing that the children had already been released from federal custody into the care of sponsors. The parents of the children had already been deported without them’ https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/21/us/migrant-children-separated.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/2...

As with everything, COVID plus the passage of time due to the Trump administration made these efforts to find parents in dangerous countries even more difficult, as @KQED reported last month: https://www.kqed.org/news/11831289/how-covid-19-has-impacted-the-search-for-separated-families">https://www.kqed.org/news/1183...