Families fostering migrant kids offer what shelters cannot – KTSM 9 News
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — Chris Umphlett and his family worked in small ways to help the 12-year-old girl from Honduras — who barely uttered a word when she arrived after crossing the Mexican border alone — feel comfortable in their Michigan home. The couple and their four young children who live in the city of […]
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Chris Umphlett and his family worked in small ways to help the 12-year-old girl from Honduras — who barely uttered a word when she arrived after crossing the Mexican border alone — feel comfortable in their Michigan home. The couple and their four young children who live in the city of […]
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San Ysidro migrant shelter in danger of closing
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Migrant children held in mass shelters with little oversight
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City shelters on standby, to be used only for processed migrants
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Downtown shelters struggle with fluctuating waves of migrants passing through the community
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Separated migrant children are headed toward shelters with a history of abuse and neglect
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US Plans to Send Migrant Children to Shelter Run by Group With Past Violations
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Biden is reopening temporary shelters for migrant children - Vox
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El Paso churches house migrants who don't qualify for city shelter : NPR
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Migrant families find support at local shelters
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What happens to unaccompanied migrant children when they turn 18?
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Trump administration stops sending kids to controversial Homestead migrant facility - ABC News
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El Paso churches house migrants who don't qualify for city shelter : NPR
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Borderland shelters seeing fewer migrants, but some continue to camp out
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Feds to turn apartments once used by oil workers into new shelter for migrant kids - ABC News
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Borderland shelters seeing fewer migrants, but some continue to camp out