Abby Phillip Counters that ‘Lost Children’ Found by Tom Homan ‘Are Not True,’ Lots of Reasons the Children Were Brought into Adult Custody

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PHILLIP: "I know Tom Homan has been big on this lost children thing, but the idea that these children were lost or missing has never been true. There are — some of them were released into the custody of relatives or other caretakers, which is part of the process over many years."

MOYNIHAN: "They often were released to adults who weren‘t verified."

PHILLIP: "Listen, I‘m not — all I‘m saying is that his characterization of them as being lost has never been accurate, and — it wasn‘t accurate when he started saying it a year ago, it‘s still not accurate today. There are a lot of different reasons why those children were released into the custody of adults in the interior of the United States. That is not the same thing as those children being lost.”