President Donald Trump’s reforms to the country’s immigration and border system have increased the number of migrant youth who are living in government shelters significantly compared to last year.
School districts cannot use state funds to provide education services to unaccompanied alien children (UAC) housed in federal shelters, say Texas education officials.
President Donald Trump’s administration will soon build a tent city near the United States-Mexico border close to El Paso, Texas, that will house hundreds of young border crossers.
One Texas school district not only supports Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), its school board urged Congress to continue the Obama-era executive amnesty program which the Trump Administration plans to phase out within six months.
The number of unaccompanied illegal immigrant minors the Obama administration is placing in communities across the U.S. is on pace to be twice as high as last year and rival the previously unprecedented levels reached in FY 2014.
The Department of Health and Human Services — the agency which places unaccompanied minors with relatives and sponsors in the U.S. — is pushing back against a proposal to fingerprint parents who claim custody of the migrant children, saying it could cause delays in family reunification.
The Obama administration returns very few migrant minors back to their home countries, even though record numbers of unaccompanied minors have entered the United States illegally in recent years.
Alabama’s senators are calling on the Obama administration to reject any proposals to house unaccompanied illegal immigrant minors at the Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base in Montgomery.
As concerns mount about a renewed surge of illegal immigration, the Obama administration is considering housing unaccompanied minors detained illegally entering the U.S.-Mexico border at military bases throughout the U.S.
