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An unaccompanied child looks up as he waits to answer questions from a Border Patrol agent in Roma, Texas.
REYNOSA, Mexico In March, US border authorities took 18,890 unaccompanied immigrant children from Central America into custody, the largest monthly figure on record but advocates said the number is driven in part by Trump-era policies that the Biden administration has kept in place.
Another big reason for the escalating numbers, experts say, is that desperate immigrants who have sold everything back home to make the journey are trying to cross the border more than once after initially failing to enter the US asylum system. Single adults made up about 58% of all undocumented immigrants encountered at the border, and the vast majority of them were expelled, senior administration officials said.
A teen who crossed the border reunites with her mom after being hospitalized with Covid Nicole Acevedo and Simone Boyce and Arleen Aguasvivas and PJ Tobia
SAN DIEGO Cindy, 17, had not seen her mother in a decade. Last month, she took a chance and journeyed from Honduras until she reached the U.S. border from Mexico for a chance to reunite with her mother, who lives in New York.
Cindy, who is being identified only by her first name for safety reasons, spent three days in a hospital bed on the opposite side of the country, in California, as she battled Covid-19. Although she had spent several weeks in U.S. immigration facilities before she fell ill, her mother did not learn about her daughter s hospitalization until Cindy was able to borrow a phone from a doctor at the hospital.
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President Joe Biden unveiled a $1.5 trillion budget proposal on Friday morning, asking Congress to allocate $769 billion for non-defense related programs and $753 billion for defense spending; the 2 requests mark 16 percent and 2 percent increases, respectively.
Acting Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Shalanda Young touted the administration’s prioritization of climate change and public health in the discretionary spending request.
“As the Congress embarks on this year’s appropriations process, the Administration is outlining its discretionary funding request for FY 2022 a package of proposals to help build on efforts to combat the COVID-19 pandemic and improve the public health infrastructure; create an economy that works for everyone; mount a historic, whole-of-Government-approach to combating climate change; advance equity across the Nation and economy; and restore America’s standing around the world,” she wrote
Michigan nonprofit to house hundreds of unaccompanied migrant children
The images are harrowing; young children, mostly from Central America, alone at the southern U.S. border seeking safety and shelter. Most are fleeing violence and poverty in their home countries.
Posted at 1:33 PM, Apr 09, 2021
and last updated 2021-04-09 13:49:06-04
(WXYZ) â An Albion nonprofit that specializes in residential programs and child behavioral health programs will house up to 240 unaccompanied migrant children from the southern border.
Starr Commonwealth said it is opening its campus in Albion after an urgent request from the U.S. federal government.
The plan, according to Starr Commonwealth, is to house up to 240 migrant children ages 12 and younger. They will provide them with temporary shelter while it works to unite them with their family or sponsors.
âI Have No Idea Where My Daughter Isâ: Migrant Parents Are Desperate for News
With a record 20,000 migrant children in shelters and detention facilities, many parents have waited weeks to learn what happened to their children after they crossed the border.
Maria Ana Mendez, left, received a phone call from Cindy when she arrived in the United States from Guatemala, but then waited weeks to hear her voice again. They were reunited in San Diego this week.Credit.Ariana Drehsler for The New York Times
April 9, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
When Maria Ana Mendez left Honduras a decade ago to earn money in the United States, her daughter Cindy was still in pigtails and playing with dolls.