yet by one officials admission they have no idea when many of the children are right now. they claim the children are not lost. but argue it s no longer responsible for them anyway. more from cnn. reporter: nearly 1,500 children falling to the cracks of a broken immigration system. raising questions about a attorney general jeff sessions new zero tolerance possible. that leads to separating children from parents sp placing them in the custody of the united states government. if you are smuggling a child, then we will prosecute you. and that child maybe separated from you. as required by law. reporter: the department of health and human service ts publicly admitting last month it checked on 7,600 kids. placed in sponsor homes and couldn t account for 1,500. we re failing. i don t think there s any doubt about it. you are the worst foster parents
checked on 7600 kids placed in sponsor homes and could not account for about 1500. we are failing, i don t think there s any doubt about it. you are the worst foster parents in the world. you don t even know where they are. reporter: the agency acknowledging it s not trying to find where the kids are. we now have a child somewhere in the country that did appear in a court record that are not in the spot we thought they were. pursuit to see where they are or what happens next? there is not a pursuit. rick santorum expressing concern by senators on both sides of the aisle and sponsors failing to follow-up with hhs does not mean the children are in idea. the idea that they are, quote, loss, is hyperbole to try to create an issue that i don t think where there is one. reporter: the findings from a 2016 sub committee report shows the problem is not partisan,
margaret, gordon, thank you very much. listen to this. 1,500 immigrant children are unaccounted for and the feds say they are not legally responsible, though they are the ones that put them in sponsor homes. will anything be dup to find them and keep grant families together? what is the u.s. policy? we ask the formerly undocumented immigrant now serving in congress, next. tection for the whole family. for the best day in the sun. neutrogena®. let someone else do the heavy lifting. tripadvisor compares prices from over 200 booking sites to find the right hotel for you at the lowest price. so you barely have to lift a finger. or a wing. tripadvisor. .to give you the protein you need with less of the sugar you don t. i ll take that. [cheers] 30 grams of protein and 1 gram of sugar.
i find that the non-profit organizations that sponsor homes for people that can t afford an apartment were the best because they cared about people. the commercial sros are only for profit and that s all they worry about. they don t worry about people. everybody stay with us. you and i are going to talk about the question of policing homelessness when we come back. it s a fact. kind of like mute buttons equal danger. .that sound good? not being on this phone call sounds good. it s not muted. was that you jason? it was geoffrey! it was jason. it could ve been brenda.