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The Government’s ‘Tracking System’ Turns Out to Be More Fantasy Than Function

On June 23, reporting and internal admissions undercut the administration’s claim that it had a workable system for tracking separated families. The revelation showed that the government was improvising around its own crisis and raised the odds that reunification would be slow, sloppy, and incomplete.

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First recorded Jun 23, 2018·Meaningfully updated Jun 23, 2018

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The Government’s ‘Tracking System’ Turns Out to Be More Fantasy Than Function

On June 23, reporting and internal admissions undercut the administration’s claim that it had a workable system for tracking separated families. The revelation showed that the government was improvising around its own crisis and raised the odds that reunification would be slow, sloppy, and incomplete.

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The Government’s ‘Tracking System’ Turns Out to Be More Fantasy Than Function

On June 23, reporting and internal admissions undercut the administration’s claim that it had a workable system for tracking separated families. The revelation showed that the government was improvising around its own crisis and raised the odds that reunification would be slow, sloppy, and incomplete.

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