Sentences with phrase «as unaccompanied children»

Dame Stephanie Shirley (84) arrived in Britain in 1939 as an unaccompanied child refugee from Nazi Europe.

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The law reflected the belief that unaccompanied children (not from Mexico or Canada) likely were the victims of alien traffickers, who might seek to exploit the children as slaves or prostitutes.

On Friday, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick announced a plan for his state to temporarily shelter up to 1,000 unaccompanied children who have recently fled to the United States as part of the ongoing border crisis.

Especially considering that, across the board, airlines will not allow children under the age of five to fly as unaccompanied minors — which is what I think a child should be considered if they are not under the immediate and direct supervision of their parent or guardian while on the flight.

Very few unaccompanied children make it as far as Britain in their search for a safe place.

Most kids who come to the UK and claim asylum are rejected and instead granted given leave to remain as an unaccompanied asylum - seeking child.

But they are then given leave to remain as an unaccompanied asylum - seeking child.

The council is supporting significant numbers of unaccompanied asylum - seeking children who do not have English as a second language and require additional support in schools.

The need has grown more urgent, Ms. James and activists said, as the federal government has decided to prioritize the cases of the unaccompanied children and adults with children in what is being called a «surge docket.»

And Ms. Mark - Viverito also led the way on the creation of a new public - private partnership to fund lawyers for unaccompanied minor children facing deportation as part of the «surge docket» in federal court.

Zeldin attributed his win to growing dissatisfaction with the direction of the country, naming ISIS and unaccompanied immigrant children as two main woes.

Many of those children came into the United States illegally from Central America as unaccompanied minors.

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito called on New York City to follow Syracuse's footsteps and offer shelter to some of the unaccompanied, undocumented immigrant children flooding into the country as they flee violence in Central America.

1998; Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402 - 9328; 2002; available at the Office of Counsel, State Education Building, Room 148, Albany, NY 12234), including, but not limited to, disputes regarding transportation and / or a child's or youth's status as a homeless child or unaccompanied youth;

Americans for Immigrant Justice Non-profit law firm that champions the rights of unaccompanied immigrant children; advocates for survivors of trafficking and domestic violence; serves as a watchdog on immigration detention practices and policies; and speaks for immigrant groups who have particular and compelling claims to justice.

Watch as Francisco explains the new challenges school districts face due to the unaccompanied nature of undocumented children.

Resources for working with special populations such as refugees, migrants, students with interrupted education, newcomer immigrants, unaccompanied children, and internationally adopted students follow below.

As students go back to school, schools prepare for unaccompanied undocumented children.

In this second book in Rosemary Zibart's Far and Away Series, which offers fictionalized accounts of unaccompanied and displaced children who found their way to the United States during World War II, Werner's father gives him a passport and a ship's passenger ticket from Hamburg to America just as Germany invades Poland in 1939.

H) have been verified during the school year in which the application is submitted as either unaccompanied youth who is a homeless child or youth or as unaccompanied at risk of homelessness and self - supporting, or

With JetBlue, when you call to say that a child will be flying unaccompanied, you will be asked to supply the following information for both the person dropping off and picking up the child: name and address (as it appears on government - issued ID) and phone number.

An added benefit of flying your child on an alternative airline: You might spare your teen the humiliation of what my best friend's teenager refers to as «unaccompanied airline jail.»

This includes his 2015 piece «Oracle,» which centers on protesters rallying against unaccompanied child migrants from Central America, as well as «The Indian Project: Rebuilding History,» also from 2015, that looks at how the Maine town of Skowhegan adopted an American Indian identity and name despite having no Native Americans in its midst.

As a mother who allows her own children to play outdoors unaccompanied (but always supervised from afar), I can understand Kendrick's sense of rage and betrayal at this unnecessary treatment and investigation.

The absurdity of this was recognised as early as June 2013 by the Human Rights Joint Committee who urged the government to «pay attention to the impact of withdrawing legal aid for non asylum immigration matters» and «consider the cost - benefit case for providing legal aid to all unaccompanied migrant children».

The Unaccompanied Children Resource Center launched in early 2015 as a joint project of the Immigration Advocates Network and the American Bar Association.

Imogen regularly acts as sole counsel for unaccompanied child asylum seekers in their judicial review challenges of local authorities» «age assessments» which have found them to be over 18.

Imogen has acted as sole counsel for a number of unaccompanied child asylum seekers in their successful judicial review challenges to local authorities» «age assessments» which found them to be over 18 years old.

RBC lawyers in New York, Minneapolis, Atlanta, Toronto, and London volunteered a record 1,020 hours of pro bono time in the past year by assisting unrepresented litigants in civil matters, acting as designated representatives for unaccompanied minor children, assisting cancer patients with legal rights, and assisting foster parents with the adoption of older youths.

During her clinical work as an MFT trainee, she provided individual, couples and group psychotherapy services to children, unaccompanied minors, adolescents and adults presenting an array of symptoms including depression, anxiety, postpartum depression, immigration trauma, and PTSD.

Figures vary but with approximately three quarters of the children and young people in care being placed with foster carers, we still need more foster carers to look after specific groups of children such as teenagers, children from ethnic minority groups, sibling groups and unaccompanied asylum seeking young people.