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#202 May 10 2018 at 11:22 PM Rating: Good
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That wasn't the WOPR, that was Joshua.

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#203 May 11 2018 at 8:27 AM Rating: Excellent
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Foolishness only follows partisan lines.
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#204 May 11 2018 at 11:37 PM Rating: Good
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He did what you saw there.
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Conservatives are now convinced that there's a Clinton-Soros child rape camp in the Arizona desert and are making police investigate it.
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#206 Jun 08 2018 at 7:26 AM Rating: Good
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#207 Jun 08 2018 at 7:37 AM Rating: Good
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But the lack of evidence has done nothing to prevent these claims from catching on among far-right online conspiracy theorists.
A lot of that going around.

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#208 Jun 08 2018 at 8:16 AM Rating: Decent
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Conservatives are now convinced that there's a Clinton-Soros child rape camp in the Arizona desert and are making police investigate it.

That must be where all the kids separated from their parents at the border are being sent.
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#209 Jun 08 2018 at 3:35 PM Rating: Excellent
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Conservatives are now convinced that there's a Clinton-Soros child rape camp in the Arizona desert and are making police investigate it.

That must be where all the kids separated from their parents at the border are being sent.


No way they'd hand a valuable resource over to the Clintons.
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#210 Jun 08 2018 at 5:34 PM Rating: Good
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Conservatives are now convinced that there's a Clinton-Soros child rape camp in the Arizona desert and are making police investigate it.

That must be where all the kids separated from their parents at the border are being sent.


No way they'd hand a valuable resource over to the Clintons.


Children of illegal immigrants aren't valuable resources, silly.
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#211 Jun 09 2018 at 10:54 AM Rating: Good
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It is if you run a child sex ring, like the Clintons.
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#212 Jun 09 2018 at 12:04 PM Rating: Excellent
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It is if you run a child *** ring, like the Clintons.


And possibly ICE, or HHS, or some other alphabet soup component who "lost" a thousand kids.
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#213 Jun 10 2018 at 10:33 AM Rating: Good
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Conservatives are now convinced that there's a Clinton-Soros child rape camp in the Arizona desert and are making police investigate it.


Not sure why Obama always gets left out of these. Maybe it's hard for them to ********** to fantasizing a black man's **** in place of their own.
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#214 Jun 11 2018 at 7:29 AM Rating: Excellent
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Conservativesare now convinced that there's a Clinton-Soros child rape camp in the Arizona desert and are making police investigate it.
That must be where all the kids separated from their parents at the border are being sent.
No way they'd hand a valuable resource over to the Clintons.
Children of illegal immigrants aren't valuable resources, silly.
I don't know. There's a reason the iPod works and the Zune doesn't.
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#215 Jun 11 2018 at 7:47 AM Rating: Good
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The magic was in the eyes of the children the whole time...It just took their tears to get it out!
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#216 Jun 11 2018 at 7:47 AM Rating: Good
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Conservativesare now convinced that there's a Clinton-Soros child rape camp in the Arizona desert and are making police investigate it.
That must be where all the kids separated from their parents at the border are being sent.
No way they'd hand a valuable resource over to the Clintons.
Children of illegal immigrants aren't valuable resources, silly.
I don't know. There's a reason the iPod works and the Zune doesn't.
Maybe they have some value, but it is only when they stay in their Eastern European and South Asia sweat shops.


On a more serious note. This "1000s of missing children after being separated from their parents" thing seems to be a purposefully misleading title running in the media. Most of these kids are the ones that came unaccompanied to the border, and are labelled missing because when their recorded contact was contacted, no one answered or they had relocated with family members.
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#217 Jun 11 2018 at 9:07 AM Rating: Excellent
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The 1,400 missing children refers to children who were taken by the government and placed in sponsor homes. From CNN:
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After a stay in an ORR shelter, the majority of children are sent to live with sponsors who have close ties to the children -- typically a parent or close relative, Wagner said, though some end up living with "other-than-close relatives or non-relatives."

Between October and December 2017, Wagner told the subcommittee, the ORR reached out to 7,635 unaccompanied children to check on them. But the ORR "was unable to determine with certainty the whereabouts of 1,475 children," Wagner testified. An additional 28 had run away.

That's more than 19% of the children that were placed by the ORR. But Wagner said HHS is not responsible for the children.

This is one thing if children are arriving unescorted at the border. The concern is that, if the US has a policy of separating children from their parents then those children will wind up in a system where we lose track of a fifth of the children and say "Not our problem".
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But even your quoted article says these weren't just children "taken by the government and placed in sponsor homes" Says they were unaccompanied minors showing up at the border, and majority placed with family members. And the "lost track" part includes unanswered phone calls.
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#219 Jun 11 2018 at 11:52 AM Rating: Decent
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Well, if you call looking for somebody and there's no answer, you don't have confirmation of their whereabouts.

Anyways, letting children stay with their parents when they reach our borders, greatly increases the chances of not losing them in the first place.
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Anyways, letting children stay with their parents when they reach our borders, greatly increases the chances of not losing them in the first place.

This is exactly why I think the way this is being portrayed is misleading. These are not children that were taken from their parents. These are children that showed up unaccompanied at the border and were placed in homes. Most of them with parents and relatives. But the way it's being interpreted is that these are children separated from their parents by the US government and then given to foster homes who then lost them.

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Well, if you call looking for somebody and there's no answer, you don't have confirmation of their whereabouts.
But if in reality they are still with their family, does it matter if said family member didn't answer the phone when the Government called?
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But even your quoted article says these weren't just children "taken by the government and placed in sponsor homes" Says they were unaccompanied minors showing up at the border, and majority placed with family members. And the "lost track" part includes unanswered phone calls.

Yes, because the policy of actively removing children from their families is new. The point is that, if the current "take unaccompanied children, place them in sponsored homes" leads to a 20% "loss" rate, maybe upping those numbers by adding children who HAVE parents with them, but we're going to separate, isn't a great idea.

"Well, they didn't answer the phone and never got back to us but I'm sure they're fine" isn't a reassuring rebuttal. That doesn't mean that they're all sex slaves in the salt mines but, you know, maybe someone should actually make sure that they're not? Besides "Well, we put these kids with some families and we made a phone call. It's out of our hands now."

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#222 Jun 11 2018 at 12:36 PM Rating: Decent
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TirithRR wrote:
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Anyways, letting children stay with their parents when they reach our borders, greatly increases the chances of not losing them in the first place.

This is exactly why I think the way this is being portrayed is misleading. These are not children that were taken from their parents. These are children that showed up unaccompanied at the border and were placed in homes. Most of them with parents and relatives. But the way it's being interpreted is that these are children separated from their parents by the US government and then given to foster homes who then lost them.

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Well, if you call looking for somebody and there's no answer, you don't have confirmation of their whereabouts.
But if in reality they are still with their family, does it matter if said family member didn't answer the phone when the Government called?

The latest policy of separating children from parents and shipping them off to foster care will only make things worse. Unaccompanied minors are usually sent with the intention of staying with family anyways; families coming together might not have others already in country.
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#223 Jun 12 2018 at 3:46 PM Rating: Decent
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But even your quoted article says these weren't just children "taken by the government and placed in sponsor homes" Says they were unaccompanied minors showing up at the border, and majority placed with family members. And the "lost track" part includes unanswered phone calls.

Yes, because the policy of actively removing children from their families is new. The point is that, if the current "take unaccompanied children, place them in sponsored homes" leads to a 20% "loss" rate, maybe upping those numbers by adding children who HAVE parents with them, but we're going to separate, isn't a great idea.


Ok. But lumping them in together somewhat muddles the numbers. Do we know if the percentage of children placed in sponsored homes who then become unaccounted for is higher or lower than the percentage of children placed with family members. I think the point Tirith was making is that the article suggests that there's some horrific problem with the "new" policy of placing children in sponsored homes, but includes mostly data from children who were placed with family.

I think most of us would reasonably accept that placing the child with a family member will increase the likelihood of later lack of response, simply due to the family being more likely to want to hide the child from authorities (or hide themselves in some cases). Obviously, we can't say for sure, but the point is that the data in the article doesn't actually support the assumed claim in the article itself.

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"Well, they didn't answer the phone and never got back to us but I'm sure they're fine" isn't a reassuring rebuttal. That doesn't mean that they're all sex slaves in the salt mines but, you know, maybe someone should actually make sure that they're not? Besides "Well, we put these kids with some families and we made a phone call. It's out of our hands now."


I don't think anyone was making any of those assertions.
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Ok. But lumping them in together somewhat muddles the numbers. Do we know if the percentage of children placed in sponsored homes who then become unaccounted for is higher or lower than the percentage of children placed with family members.

Some sponsored homes are with family, some are not. But all are in sponsored homes.
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I think most of us would reasonably accept that placing the child with a family member will increase the likelihood of later lack of response, simply due to the family being more likely to want to hide the child from authorities (or hide themselves in some cases).

That's a swell guess but it's just a guess. You're also making the guess that non-documented family members in the US are eligible to be sponsors.
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I don't think anyone was making any of those assertions.

Tirith repeatedly made the point that "well, it includes people who didn't answer the phone". Of course, if I was turning children into stew or something, I probably wouldn't answer the phone either. So what's the percentage of "Well, they didn't answer the phone" missing children who are in some sort of neglect or peril? Oh, we have no idea because the official stance of the government is "Once they're in a sponsored family, they're not our problem any more".

And so an 80% success rate in tracking these children is nothing to write home about. But here's the thing: maybe you accept this as "good enough" for children found unaccompanied at the border. Sucks, but you need to find some solution for these kids. But the reason why this is in the news is because the administration is making the completely voluntary choice to take children away from their families -- to make them "unaccompanied" -- for purely political reasons and put them into this system with an 80% success rate. Enough children that the shelters are now overflowing and we're erecting tent cities to house another couple thousand children. And these children are probably less likely to have family-sponsored homes to stay at because they came with their families.
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Ok. But lumping them in together somewhat muddles the numbers. Do we know if the percentage of children placed in sponsored homes who then become unaccounted for is higher or lower than the percentage of children placed with family members.

Some sponsored homes are with family, some are not. But all are in sponsored homes.


Ok. But the implication I got from the article was that it was trying to make a point about "removing children from their families/parents == bad", so the issue isn't whether the home is "sponsored", but whether it's a relative or a non-relative who is taking custody of the child. And that is certainly muddled by the way the numbers are presented.

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I think most of us would reasonably accept that placing the child with a family member will increase the likelihood of later lack of response, simply due to the family being more likely to want to hide the child from authorities (or hide themselves in some cases).

That's a swell guess but it's just a guess. You're also making the guess that non-documented family members in the US are eligible to be sponsors.


Um... Or the much more reasonable "non-guess" that it's not uncommon at all for many people who come to the US illegally (especially if dragging along minor children, or sending them unaccompanied into the states), to have legal resident/citizen relatives living in the US. Those are usually the people they're intending their minor children to live with in the first place (even if just "some of the time" in order to help them stay in the US). So yeah, said family members would certainly have a higher likelihood of not responding to contact requests once the child is in their hands than a non-relative guardian.

While I'm sure it does happen, I'd assume that the rate of non-related sponsors "losing" those children would probably be similar to the rate among any other random set of children in foster care. It happens. But it's rare, and usually involves teens and not "young children". Again though, the implication I got was that this was about claiming that by putting children in non-family homes, they're at risk of "going missing", with some kind of implied nefariousness going on or something.

I don't see data that supports that implication though.

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I don't think anyone was making any of those assertions.

Tirith repeatedly made the point that "well, it includes people who didn't answer the phone". Of course, if I was turning children into stew or something, I probably wouldn't answer the phone either. So what's the percentage of "Well, they didn't answer the phone" missing children who are in some sort of neglect or peril?


What's the percentage of homes you might randomly call in which they don't answer the phone and in which there's a child in some sort of neglect or peril? I don't know. Neither do you. Is the likelihood increased if the child was placed in the home via a sponsorship program versus just living there with their parents? I mean, I guess you could interpret that as arguing *against* it happening at all, but that wasn't the vibe I got. I got more of a "there's no automatic reason to assume something nefarious in this case". Again, it's more likely that they aren't responding specifically because they are trying to shield the child from immigration officials rather than that there's something horrible being done to the child.

But then, it's hard to gauge that because the article conflates too many different data points, so we can't really get a clear picture of what's going on. If there was some kind of pattern in terms of which sort of sponsoring home maybe correlates to a higher percentage of "failed to answer the phone over X amount of time" outcomes, maybe we could make some kind of guesses as to what is happening. But the article seemed more about generating emotions (on all sides, since the immigration enforcement people could claim that the kinds were "missing" as a means of avoiding immigration law, and the open borders folks could claim they were missing due to some kind of evil plot by the government to take those poor immigrant children and sell them into slavery or something.

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Oh, we have no idea because the official stance of the government is "Once they're in a sponsored family, they're not our problem any more".


Yeah. See my references to foster homes above. It's a pretty crappy scenario and there's no good solution either way.

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And so an 80% success rate in tracking these children is nothing to write home about. But here's the thing: maybe you accept this as "good enough" for children found unaccompanied at the border. Sucks, but you need to find some solution for these kids. But the reason why this is in the news is because the administration is making the completely voluntary choice to take children away from their families -- to make them "unaccompanied" -- for purely political reasons and put them into this system with an 80% success rate. Enough children that the shelters are now overflowing and we're erecting tent cities to house another couple thousand children. And these children are probably less likely to have family-sponsored homes to stay at because they came with their families.


So, you're looping back to the "put them with relatives instead" argument, right? Which would make that whole "where is the 20% that are missing actually coming from" point relevant. If it turns out that the kids that are "missing" are most prevalent in the homes of relatives rather than unrelated sponsors, doesn't that completely step on your core argument? Which would make actually bothering to narrow down those states kinda important.

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What's the percentage of homes you might randomly call in which they don't answer the phone and in which there's a child in some sort of neglect or peril? I don't know. Neither do you.

Why, it's almost as though the people who put them in those homes should have a Plan B besides "Eh, he's probably fine." Accountability is hard, let's go shopping!

It's sort of bizarre that your entire counter argument hinges on "But, uh, maybe the kids are safe with families and we don't know!" but you're cool with the "we don't know" part as the government prepares to send thousands of other kids into "we don't know" land. I suppose ignorance is blissful enough to mandate keeping it that way.
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