In October 2017, the stories of Jane Doe, Roe, and Poe, young women detained at a Texas immigration detention center run by the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) made national headlines. They were pregnant, undocumented immigrants who were denied access to abortion because the ORR argued ...
The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR),a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), enrolls refugees in a broad range of welfare programs for which they automatically qualify after 30 days. ORR spent about$643 millionin FY2009. Nearly half of this goes to states ...
Before entry into the United States, the experiences of UC place them at risk for mental health problems. The Office of Refugee Resettlement’s UC Program seeks to provide children with mental health support across a health continuum beginning at the time they enter ORR’s custody until discharge...
let me just say that every reasonable person has concluded that the president of the United States of America has advocated violence, he has been divisive and he has been the one that has caused what we see happening today.” If there is anyone who fails to uphold any rendition of civility...
(DHHS), the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), while their incarcerated parents awaited adjudication of their asylum claims. No provisions were made to adequately and judiciously reunite the children with their parents. No one knows for sure how many families were separated nor how many have ...
But other Afghan children arrived in the U.S. without any family members and remain in the custody of HHS' Office of Refugee Resettlement, which is required to house them until it finds suitable sponsors or the minors turn 18. "We are working to ensure that Unaccompanied Afghan Minors who ...
Officials say the Office of Refugee Resettlement's shelters could be insufficient to house what it'scalling an "influx" of children.According to agency statistics, ORR took in 40,900 children during the first seven months of the current fiscal year — an increase of 57% from last y...
With apprehensions of minors along the U.S.-Mexico border rising steadily since the spring, housing facilities for underage migrants could reach maximum capacity next month, according to a recent court declaration from the head of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), a federal agency c...
In recent years unaccompanied minors from the Central American countries of El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala have entered the US at the US/Mexico border at steadily increasing rates. According to the US Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), the biggest spike occurred from 2013 (24,668 referr...
If you have children, the U.S., using taxpayers money, arranges for the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) in the Administration for Children and Familes (ACF) to provide for the child until a sponsor, parent, or guardian can claim the child....