"Parents of 545 children still not found three years after Trump separation policy"

See here.

I remember reading (and/or hearing, on the television news), a few years ago, that the U.S. federal government didn't seem to have any plan for reuniting separated children with their parents--they didn't seem to have set up any system for tracking which parent was the parent of which child and/or where each parent and child were.  It was pretty shocking at the time, and still is, and I thought that this result was inevitable.  I wish I didn't have to say "I told you so."  :(  My government could have avoided this tragedy simply by setting up a database, but the folks in charge didn't give a _ _ _ _.  This outcome was so predictable that I don't know whether to cry or scream.  :(