Most of the kids at the #Homestead facility came here as unaccompanied minors and are awaiting placement with sponsors. If you REALLY care, you should stop by the @ccadom. They are actively looking for foster homes for many of these kids and could probably use the publicity.
@SenBillNelson Here's more info for your concerned constituents about the Arch Diocese of Miami's program to find foster homes for the immigrant kids in #HHS custody like the kids in #Homestead.
@SenBillNelson You could really make a positive impression. Why don't you be the first today to publicly apply to foster one of the immigrant kids in #Homestead?
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"The answer alleges that on January 29, when her car was towed, Ms. Okoumou
berated the tow truck operator with “racial and inappropriate remarks.” Ms. Okoumou allegedly
chased the tow truck as the operator drove away with her car, yelled at him, ran up to the tow
truck..."
"attempted to remove the keys from the truck’s ignition, and jumped on the back of the tow
truck, despite the operator’s warning that if she did not desist, he would call the police. Ms.
Okoumou allegedly got into her vehicle while it was on the truck..."
"Most of the children that started coming across the border 3 or 4 years ago were alone or with smugglers that worked double duty with the cartels. The adults that were with them often lied and said they were the parents which was not true."
"Even the children that were with their parents or parent were often times in dangerous situations. These children were separated back then and are still separated to this day. "
"Illegal immigrants are kidnapping children and bringing them across the border, hoping to appear to be families so they can take advantage of lax enforcement policies, the OBAMA administration told a federal appeals court ... washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jun/…
Leon Fresco, a deputy assistant attorney general who handles immigration cases, made the stunning claim as he defended the administration’s policy of detaining illegal immigrant parents and children caught traveling together as they jump the border...
After a federal judge last year ordered the families quickly released, Mr. Fresco said it’s served as an enticement for kidnapping.
'When people now know that when I come as a family unit, I won’t be apprehended and detained — we now have people being abducted...
THIS is why it is necessary to separate adults from the children they bring to our border. Yes, it sucks, but we have to ensure that the children aren't being trafficked here. Unfortunately it's... theguardian.com/world/2010/jan…
Unfortunately it's a necessary evil because a MUCH GREATER EVIL is at work.
"The teenager tells of a cross-border trade in babies and young children, where Mexican and US gangs worked together to supply a demand in the United States..."
They stole the children,' she said. 'One of the gang members took a six-year-old kid. I had to look after him for three hours. He told me he wanted to see his mummy. Then I started crying. I said: 'I don't think you're ever going to see your mummy again...'
#WhereAreTheChildren
Make no mistake, this issue is the results of OBAMA'S policies. HHS has inherited a problem that's been occurring for years. I wrote about it 4 YEARS AGO and NO ONE expressed any outrage during the last administration. #WhereWereTheLiberals
"Over a period of four months in 2014, however, HHS allegedly placed a number of UACs in the hands of a ring of human traffickers who forced them to work on egg farms in and around Marion, Ohio, leading to a federal criminal
indictment."
"Specifically, the files reveal that, from June through September 2014, HHS placed a number with alleged distant relatives or family friends—including one of the defendants in the criminal case—without taking sufficient steps to ensure that the
placements would be safe..."