IG: Incompatible Tech Added to Family Separation Policy Chaos

NextGov: Incompatible IT systems and shoddy data sharing prevented agencies from reuniting children and parents separated at the border under the Trump administration’s stringent immigration policies, according to federal auditors.

The lack of integration between agencies’ immigration IT systems hampered efforts to identify and track children and families taken into federal custody while “increasing the risk that a child could become lost in the system,” the Homeland Security Department Inspector General said in a report released Tuesday.

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