course few show up for their deportation or immigration hearings. so at the start of the trump administration lost immigrant kids, they didn't lose anybody. when hhs tried to check up on these kids with their sponsors, at times, illegal immigrant families themselves caring for the children, 1475 failed to take the calls or even respond to the government at all. so the immigrant kids aren't lost. their sponsors just haven't connected with the hhs, or made themselves available. but the media want to misconstrue that as losing a kid, okay. let's do that for a moment. hypothetically let's just say that that's correct. obama lost nearly three times the number of kids, "the new york times" reporting a 2016 inspector general report show that the federal government was able to reach only 84% of children it had placed leaving