Thread by @lomikriel, This is, again, another lie. The story by @jacobsoboroff @JuliaEAinsley says they [...]

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/geoffrbennett/status/1318971739175587842

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

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

‘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

Parents of 545 Children Separated at the Border Cannot Be Found

A new report shows hundreds of cases in which the deported parents of migrant children who were taken from their families cannot be located.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/21/us/migrant-children-separated.html

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

How COVID-19 Has Impacted the Search for Separated Families | KQED

The search for parents separated from their children at the U.S.-Mexico border is still ongoing. But because of the spread of the pandemic, the effort was put on hold for months.

https://www.kqed.org/news/11831289/how-covid-19-has-impacted-the-search-for-separated-families

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