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After welcoming a child in March 2020, an Ecuadorian woman, Jay and Leslie waited patiently for months before welcoming another. The couple is described as empty nests with two adult children in college. They have space and time, and their religion has forced them to do so. adoptive parents, tell TIME. ” You have to have compassion for someone who is alone, not with their family, in a new environment, a new language, a whole new language,” Leslie says. “You realize that you are his first link, his first springboard to the United States. It’s a big responsibility. ‘
TIME spoke to Leslie and Jay on the condition that their surnames remain anonymous for fear of their protection and that of the young people they are welcoming. “She’s politicized,” Leslie says, adding that she has never faced a controversial scenario, some other woman on the show was shouted through a stranger for hosting young migrants. “Some other people think that if you help, you contribute to the problem, which is certainly not the case, but they don’t help others who cross the border. “
On a call Thursday afternoon, government officials told reporters that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was holding about 4,500 young people. Children will have to go through DHS custody within 72 hours and will be transferred to Health and Person Services (HHS). overseeing the detection of COVID-19, quarantine and placement of young people in transitional foster care through the Office for Refugee Resettlement (ORR). In Thursday’s press appeal, authorities said HHS had about 9,500 young people in their care on Wednesday. number of young people, officials said some young people end up in DHS custody for more than 72 hours.
Temporary services were built through DHS to temporarily space young people under their care, adding a facility in Donna, Texas, which was temporarily overcrowded. Authorities also changed the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in downtown Dallas to a detention center for teenage migrants. under structure in Texas and Arizona, authorities said Thursday. On average, it takes 34 days for a child to meet with their sponsor, according to government officials.
High-ranking Republicans temporarily blamed Biden’s administration for the “crisis. “During a Monday vacation in El Paso, Texas, House minority leader Kevin McCarthy called the stage a “human anguish” and a crisis created through Biden administration policies. Abbott told Fox News that he had asked Biden’s management to allow Texas officials to speak directly to young people to see if they were victims of human trafficking, but their application was denied (ORR says all young people are screened for trafficking when treated).
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In response, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas issued a length on Tuesday saying, “No matter how complicated the border scenario, we are solving it. We’ve acted and moved on. We have no illusions about how complicated and we know it will be necessary. “We’ll get there. We will do so in accordance with the law and our core values. We have an incredibly committed and talented workforce. “
Jay and Leslie say they perceive how politicized this influx of young people has become, but they go up that they avoid politics, what they see are young people with urgent needs and are in an exclusive position to witness the reunification of a child with their enjoying one in the United States.
Jay’s voice breaks when he talks about the first child he and Leslie had, and from taking him to meet his mother already in the United States. Go see her?” said Jay, drowning. ” He’s just going to run and jump into his mother’s arms. “The girl’s mother and stepfather had come with balloons and full animals, as well as gifts for Jay and Leslie, a thank you for their daughter.