Sentences with phrase «unaccompanied children because»
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Unaccompanied children have been making the voyage to the United States for generations to reunite with family members or because they had lost their parents to war or famine.
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The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) is holding a series of emergency conference calls with all departments and agencies of the federal government requiring them to search for and vet «properties to temporarily house [unaccompanied alien children]» because «the need for facilities continues to grow.»
Most unaccompanied youth are unable to access safe housing or shelter, for a combination of reasons, including: being too young to consent for services without a parent; fear of child welfare involvement; and the lack of services overall: more than half of those who seek shelter can not access it because shelters are full.