Sentences with phrase «unaccompanied children»

«The British and French governments are guilty of turning their backs on hundreds of unaccompanied children in Calais and Dunkirk, with increasing evidence that these kids are subject to trafficking by criminal gangs involved in prostitution and drugs,» Farron told Politics.co.uk

Morgan has already been a vocal opponent of a hard Brexit and has been part of a group of MPs calling for a debate in the Commons on the issue of unaccompanied children in Greece and Italy, which will take place on 23 February.

Among the Southeast Asian refugees settled across the United States were tens of thousands of unaccompanied children who lost their parents to war or the treacherous journey to the United States.

Meanwhile, campaigners from the charity Help Refugees went to the High Court on Tuesday to back a challenge over the number of unaccompanied child refugees being accepted into the UK under the Dubs scheme.

BETHPAGE, N.Y. (CBSNewYork / AP)-- The federal government is looking at a former defense plant site in Bethpage to possibly house thousands of unaccompanied children from Central America.

They'd arrived in the UK as unaccompanied children years before.

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.

Ninety - nine unaccompanied children arrived asking for asylum from Afghanistan in the first half of this year alone.

I am a member of the Federal Trial Bar and have devoted significant time to pro bono work, helping unaccompanied children seeking asylum navigate the U.S. immigrant justice system and, more recently, helping exonerate wrongfully convicted individuals.

At 2 p.m., leaders from the Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network and Education for a Better America will address the policy implications of the influx of unaccompanied children into the Hempstead, NY Union Free School District, 185 Peninsula Blvd., Hempstead.

(The Education Department during Duncan's tenure released written guidelines reminding districts of that obligation, particularly after waves of unaccompanied children came to the country from Central America in recent years.)

He has helped with screening and representing unaccompanied children on the rocket docket in New York City Immigration Court.

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.

During her tenure at that organization, she acted as the agency's focal point on unaccompanied children and advocated for systemic reforms in law and policy to better protect children.

How will schools deal with the surge in unaccompanied child immigration?

Lib Dem home affairs spokesman Chris Huhne said: «Thousands of unaccompanied children claim asylum every year, many of them victims of trafficking, yet our system still fails to deal with them humanely.»

There has been a tenfold increase in the number of unaccompanied children trying to enter the United States illegally since 2009.

Congress did not foresee that Central American families might voluntarily send unaccompanied children en masse to the border.

Bethany Christian Services works in eight states to assist refugee families with services like language training and transportation, and also places unaccompanied children in foster homes.

The Dubs scheme commits the government to relocate unaccompanied children from other countries in Europe.

Starfish continues to support unaccompanied children and vulnerable families who are detained on the island with food aid and material assistance.

The discussion about young supporters was preceded by a presentation by Paul Milne, Liverpool's safeguarding and assurance manager, who outlined the challenges faced by all Premier League clubs when it comes to safeguarding children and explained why Liverpool do not allow unaccompanied children under the age of 16 to attend games.

Last year I introduced a Ten Minute Rule Bill entitled Asylum (Unaccompanied Children Displaced by Conflict).

I have been supporting Save the Children's call for the UK to take 3,000 unaccompanied children because I strongly believe that this is the right thing to do.

This Bill, if enacted, wold make provision for the award of asylum - seeker status in the United Kingdom to certain unaccompanied children from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Eritrea displaced by conflict and present within the European Union.

But the Bureau's study of Afghan teenagers found that just one - in - five former unaccompanied children that apply to extend their leave are successful first time.

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

Public Advocate Letitia James is calling on lawyers to help represent unaccompanied children pro bono in federal immigration cases — and said she'd join them.

Hollande and Cameron also spoke about unaccompanied children in the Calais camp, many of whom are thought to have relatives in the UK.

He appeared to use the platform to rebut accusations by some that his winning film failed to reflect reality, before moving on to the Tory government's apparent U-turn on its promise to accept thousands of unaccompanied children fleeing danger in Syria and elsewhere.

They should not be returning unaccompanied child refugees (2,018 of them between 2007 and 2015) to a place they have never lived and have no family connection to.

«I understand that there is a humanitarian crisis with unaccompanied children at the border, but putting them in an industrial warehouse on a site near a Superfund site is not a humanitarian solution,» Israel told WCBS 880's Sophia Hall.

The Liberal Democrats have led the charge to force the UK government to agree to take its fair share of unaccompanied child refuges in Europe, 3,000 of the estimated 30,000 currently open to exploitation in camps.

For safety reasons, you can't buy unaccompanied child tickets online.

Children, including unaccompanied children, have carried out Child - to - Child activities to improve the health and well being of other children and their families living in the camps.

Filling the gap for unaccompanied children caught in judicial limbo LAUSD and districts like it have been singularly burdened with addressing the extensive needs of unaccompanied immigrant children.

Governor Pat McCrory says state officials don't have enough information about what he calls unaccompanied children.

(District of Columbia) Despite growing concerns that the influx of unaccompanied child immigrants into the U.S. will overwhelm local government services in some communities, social advocates say public schools are not likely to be part of that turmoil.

Follows unaccompanied child migrants, «the invisible ones,» from Central America, on the harrowing journey through Mexico to reach the United States.

As this ruling was pending during the negotiations for a recast of the Dublin II Regulation, the final recast regulation includes a statement inviting the Commission to revise the equivalent Article 8 (4) for unaccompanied children upon the publication of the Court's decision.

[2] For further information on the application of the Dublin II Regulation with respect to unaccompanied children see the Dublin Transnational Network Project comparative report The Dublin II Regulation Lives on Hold, February 2013.

Unaccompanied children form a category of particularly vulnerable persons and prompt access to an asylum procedure and the prevention of unnecessary delays in the Dublin procedure are central to their best interests (Para. 61).

Hearings can involve vulnerable people such unaccompanied children, victims of human trafficking, those mental health trauma, and those living in fear of being returned to inhumane conditions and brutal and repressive treatment.

On 6 June 2013, the Court issued an important ruling in the case of MA & Others v UK (C - 648 / 11) on the position of unaccompanied children subject to the Dublin II Regulation.

Typical job duties of an airline Customer Service Agent include greeting passengers, checking in passengers, assigning seat numbers, answering to client inquiries, labeling luggage, informing passengers on luggage restrictions, reassuring nervous passengers, weighing baggage, charging excess weight, and assisting unaccompanied children.