Trump administration officials privately acknowledged that they had no way to reunite thousands of separated immigrant parents and children, according to emails published by NBC News on Wednesday. “[I]n short, no, we do not have any linkages from parents to [children], save for a handful,” a Health and Human Services (HHS) official told a top official at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on June 23, 2018. “We have a list of parent alien numbers but no way to link them to children.” The emails, provided to NBC by the House Judiciary Committee, showed that officials privately said they only had information to reconnect 60 parents with their kids.

Trump officials said they had ‘no way to link’ separated migrant families, emails show | TheHill

But they went ahead and did it anyway, creating hundreds of orphans and thousands of traumatized children (and parents)…