It encourages middle and High School Students to think critically about issues that affect the nation. Students were asked to create a documentary based on the theme the three branches and you, to demonstrate how policies and action or Action Action or law affect you are the community. Cole sebastian, thomas norris, and amy geomet and amy gilbert are winners. Alone, afraid, searching for hope with no one to turn to. Escaping from lives of trauma and hoping to find a place to call home. Carlos is one of the 70,000 who immigrated to honduras. From honduras. He now lives in takoma park, maryland, with his foster parents. The office of Refugee Resettlement and local programs for undocumented refugee minors are working to find housing for these youth across the nation. But there are thousands more to come, and the or are does not have enough resources. Carlos is one of the lucky ones. Without government funding, the programs that put him where he is could now clog up or even shut down. The house of representatives must be willing to allocate enough funds to these programs to keep them running. These programs help nurture the demographic to shape the future of the american economy. The urm program consists of local programs nationwide network to find refugee minors homes and futures in america. The program that found carlos a home is Lutheran Social Services or lss. We met with the clinical supervisor. We have trained the families, worked with the kids, and also try case management. We basically do that, but it is a Specialized Program for unaccompanied dues from other countries. All those services that a traditional kid in foster care would get, but knowing that there are a lot of cultural differences and things like that, the idea that they are getting prepared for when they age out of the foster care system, they are ready to live when they turn 21. Recently, through an executive order by president obama and a new budget passed in the house, funds are being allocated to stem the flow of immigrants to the country, and over 5 Million Immigrants will be able to gain citizenship. Large sums of money are being used to support a large number of child immigrants coming into the u. S. All that money to support those kids comes out of the same pool, the office of Refugee Resettlement. The concern was rather than adding funding, they would take money away from other programs, such as refugee settlement, to support youth programs. What we hope for is not that they would be taking money away but rather adding money to meet the need. Success in the American Workforce and the American Education system can be extremely difficult for program such as Lutheran Social Services. The value is that they are providing all of the necessary social services that these children and youth need. Bill akinecenbarger is part of a program that works with refugee children. Bill co they have been oftentimes bill they have been oftentimes used for sex traffic. You Foreign ServicesLutheran Services check with them periodically and work on life skills, learning to cook and clean on their own and take care of themselves basically. They help get them job training. They often put them in the right educational program. They are 15, 16, 17 years old and they have very little formal education. Many americans believe the u. S. Government should not be helping any immigrants in any way. They believe that immigrants will steal american jobs and increase crime. Secretary of labor of the United States thomas perez was able to explain why immigrants are so important to a prosperous economy. Thomas perez immigrants have helped build america. They are more likely to have a College Degree than native on immigrants. Something like one in four workers in the Health Care Field is an immigrant. Immigrants from the beginning of time have been a robust part of our nations economy. What we see in other countries who do not have the immigration patterns that we have countries like japan they are confronting a workforce crisis because they are not replenishing the workforce. One thing that immigrants do as well is contribute to the Social Security trust fund. That is our system, and it relies for its success on a robust cadre of workers, and immigrants provide that labor. I notice a lot of the youth that come through the program are highly motivated and they want to be a part of society. They want to work hard. They want to attain the american dream. They often are able to give back to society in a lot of useful ways. Those who oppose the assimilation of immigrants claim that immigrants are unamerican. But there is nothing more american. When one describes the american dream, there is no dream closer to that than the children who come across our borders. 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