While parents are jailed, children are turned over to the Office of Refugee Resettlement, part of the Department of Health and Human Services. The children are then designated as "unaccompanied minors," AP reported, and the government tries to connect them to family members who are already in ...
Border agents then hand migrant youth over to the US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) for housing in tent camps and other shelters until they can be sent to family members or sponsors already in the USA. As President Obama did in 2019, the Biden...
(2013). LGBT refugee resettlement in the US: Emerging best practices. Forced Migration Review, 42, 44-47. Retrieved from http://www.fmreview.org/en/sogi/portman-weyl.pdfPortman, Scott; Weyl, Daniel. LGBT refugee resettlement in the US: emerging best practices Forced Migration Review. Apr...
However, the unprecedented number of Ukrainians flying to Mexico to try to escape the Russian invasion and gain quick entry into the U.S. has led to that anti-trafficking law affecting a small number of Ukrainian children. As of Friday, HHS' Office of Refugee Resettlement was housing at lea...
While parents are jailed, children are turned over to the Office of Refugee Resettlement, part of the Department of Health and Human Services. The children are then designated as "unaccompanied minors," AP reported, and the government tries to connect them to family members who are already in ...
However, the unprecedented number of Ukrainians flying to Mexico to try to escape the Russian invasion and gain quick entry into the U.S. has led to that anti-trafficking law affecting a small number of Ukrainian children. As of Friday, HHS' Office of Refugee Resettlement was housing at lea...
In June, as detention centers for migrant children overflowed, Scott Lloyd, director of HHS’s Office of Refugee Resettlement, signed a memo granting BCFS a waiver to staff up Tornillo without the required child abuse and neglect checks, which raise a red flag about any job candidate with a ...
Refugee resettlement is a small, but very important part of our country’s immigration laws and policies. Many refugees experience unbelievable hardships as they are forced to flee their homes, often leaving family members behind. Most refugees are women and children. Many die trying to escape war...
{mosads}Two sources with knowledge of the situation confirmed the agency’s move to Reuters, with one adding that the DHS told those involved in refugee admissions about the decision Wednesday. The resettlement interviews are usually one of the last hurdles refugees face before reaching American so...
Processing for unaccompanied migrant children, who are afforded extra protections under U.S. law, will not change and CBP will continue to quickly transfer them to the Office of Refugee Resettlement within HHS. Homeland Security officials did not answer whether any migrants who say the...