This is essentially the policy that was bequeathed to the trump administration, correct? what happens when you have an unaccompanied child cross the border, the law requires that homeland security security turn that child over to the department of hhs within 48 hours. and hhs then has these large shelters and they try to place the child with a family member or some other suitable circumstance and when you have spikes like this and you re dealing with the volume we re dealing with now, 50,000 a month, it s very, very difficult for hhs to keep up with where they place these people. their first priority is getting them out of the shelters and putting them in a suitable home of some sort. very often when there is follow-through, the child has moved on, gone to another family circumstance, something of that nature. look back, during the summer ....