1475 immigrant children who were seized from their parents and placed in the care of Health and Human Services in 2017 are unaccounted for.
New guidelines have been put in place to protect these children, but two agencies haven't implemented them more than one year after they were introduced.
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An AP investigation found in 2016 that more than two dozen unaccompanied children had been sent to homes where they were sexually assaulted, starved or forced to work for little or no pay. At the time, many adult sponsors didn’t undergo thorough background checks, government officials rarely visited homes and in some cases had no idea that sponsors had taken in several unrelated children, a possible sign of human trafficking.
New guidelines have been put in place to protect these children, but two agencies haven't implemented them more than one year after they were introduced.
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