DHS Had No Database to Track Migrant Children Separated From Their Parents
Every time I hear about the immigrant kids separated from their parents, I think about how a simple simple app in Quickbase could have saved a ton of trouble and bad PR and hurt for the families. This is 2018 for goodness sakes.
However, inspectors ?found no evidence such a database exists.? What they instead found was a flawed ?manually-compiled spreadsheet? prone to human error.https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/10/dhs-database-separated-children-zero-tolerance-policy-im...
There was also a lack of communication between each agency. For example, CBP officers had to report their information about immigrants on Microsoft Word documents and email them to HHS, a manual process ?vulnerable to human error? and ?increasing the risk that a child could become lost in the system, the report said.
