The Office of Refugee Resettlement, a federal agency tasked with placing thousands of immigrant children in sponsor homes, reportedly lost track of 1,500 kids in the last three months of 2017. ORR is a branch of HHS that oversees the care of unaccompanied immigrant children. Legally, ORR is not “responsible for children after they are released from ORR care,” Wagner said. In 2017, the agency transferred more than 40,000 immigrant children to ORR in 2017. But between October and December, ORR reportedly could not account for 1,475 of the 7,635 children they reached out to, while 28 had run away, Wagner said.

Source: Fox News May 27, 2018 08:48 UTC