If you aren’t overwhelmed by the wide range and daily barrage of lies, security leaks, and corruption out of the Trump administration and want a little dark humor, I’m thinking this video relates well to some recent news about U.S. border enforcement. It is from a years-old Mitchell and Webb BBC comedy skit in which one SS officer asks a fellow officer “Hans, are we the baddies?” It has been popular again online since Donald Trump took office.

Govexec.com reports  that the DHS not only separates immigrant children from their parents detained along the U.S. border but have been at it longer than they first admitted. And worse yet the original recording “systems” used to track children-needed to reunite them with parents or guardians is proving to have been … “inadequate.”

The Health and Human Services HHS Office of Inspector General published a report Thursday finding that the current tally—2,737 children—applies only to children in the department’s custody as of a June 2018 federal court order requiring the data’s release. But the statistic does not include thousands of children who were separated from their parents and detained beginning in the summer of 2017 and released before the ruling was issued.

And for officials currently trying to sort out the mess, tracking what became of these children is proving more than problematic. It seems, early on, headquarters-level record keeping at DHS was an “informal” Excel spreadsheet method later upgraded to include information gathered from the field.  This ad hoc tracking system inspectors now find is not conducive to “retrospective reporting.”

The Trump administration’s record keeping may not be up the standards of historical “baddies” but considering the suffering inflicted on all those detained we better take a close look in the mirror pretty damn quick.