Rick Santorum: Migrant children the government lost track of aren't lost

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Rick Santorum said Sunday that the roughly 1,500 migrant children who the government has lost track of aren’t lost.

During a panel on CNN’s "State of the Union," the former GOP lawmaker claimed that because the government doesn't currently where the children are doesn't mean that they were missing.

Department of Health and Human Services officials told Congress last month that it had lost track of nearly 1,500 unaccompanied migrant children who had been placed with adult sponsors.

“They were placed in vetted homes,” Santorum said of the children. “The question is, they haven’t had communication with these previously vetted sponsors. Does that mean that they’re lost? No.”

“That means there’s a process going on right now to try and find why these sponsors haven’t check back in to give us their location,” he said.

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“If you don’t think 1,500 children being lost is not an issue, then there’s something definitely wrong,” fellow panelist and former Hillary Clinton campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle interjected.

“The government has said that they’ve lost track of them, that’s another word for lost,” Solis Doyle added.

http://thehill.com/homenews/media/389572-rick-santorum-migrant-children-the-government-lost-track-of-arent-lost

[George II]

1. He was asked two or three times "where are they", he couldn't answer.

[SummerSnow]

2. he doesn't care about them. he's a pos

[John Fante]

3. I haven't lost my car keys.

They simply haven't appeared before me in several hours.

[irisblue]

4. That man is a freaking idiot. nt

[marylandblue]

5. That's what I tell my wife when I don't want to ask for directions.

I don't know where I am going, but I am not lost.

[Ohiogal]

6. And Santorum is spokesman for whom?

He's not in Congress anymore. He doesn't work in the White House or for any government agency. How would he know anything about anything this sensitive? He's a freaking idiot. I never could stand his smarmy demeanor. Wish the news shows would quit treating him like he's some kind of knowledgeable spokesman for anything.

[Solly Mack]

7. When I can't find my car keys are they are lost to me.

When someone takes children from their family and then can't find them - that goes so far beyond lost that you'd have to be a class - A asshole to quibble over the word lost instead of focusing on the fact that the children are missing - and they're missing because the government lost them. The government didn't keep track. The government wasn't doing follow-ups to check on the health and well being of the children.

But then we are talking Santorum.

Foster parents are vetted and foster parents sometimes harm their charges. Sometimes kill them.

So, "vetted" is kind of meaningless without follow-ups and active caring.