Six news organizations are partnering together to track down information about the migrant children being held in detention centers and shelters across the country after being separated from their families upon crossing the U.S.–Mexico border.
BuzzFeed News announced this week that it was uniting with ProPublica, The Intercept, Univision News, Animal Politico and Plaza Publica to gather research about the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy, which seeks to prosecute anyone crossing into the U.S. illegally via the southern border.
“Amid a heated national debate about the policy, actual information about the whereabouts and welfare of separated children is hard to come by,” Buzzfeed said in a statement Wednesday.
The media outlets said they hope to crowdsource information because the federal government is not providing any to state agencies….