Sentences with phrase «unaccompanied children from»

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.

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.

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

Not exact matches

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.

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

UNICEF reports that a doctor was quoted, saying: «Many children, possibly more than 100, unaccompanied or separated from their families, are trapped in a building, under heavy attack in east Aleppo.»

The lighthearted moment came shortly after Cameron had said that the UK will take in more unaccompanied Syrian refugee children from Europe.

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

It's little wonder that the UK is currently facing a legal challenge from the Children's Society over the impact of the legal aid cuts on unaccompanied or separated cChildren's Society over the impact of the legal aid cuts on unaccompanied or separated childrenchildren.

Just over 100 children have been granted permanent legal status or asylum in New York City two years after the City Council launched a private - public partnership to prevent unaccompanied minors from being deported from the city.

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.

«From what I've read, it is these women and their children and it is these unaccompanied children,» who will be targeted, Ms. Mark - Viverito said.

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

(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.)

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.

Between December 1st 1938 and September 1st 1939 close to 10,000 unaccompanied, mostly Jewish children were helped to escape from Nazi occupied territories, and brought to relative safety in the UK.

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 powers and duties in section 20 enable children's services to make arrangements for children who are abandoned or separated from their parents without needing to ask a court (e.g. an unaccompanied refugee child).

Loughry and Flouri (2001) for example, investigated the behavioural and emotional problems of 455 former unaccompanied refugee children and youth aged between 10 and 22, three to four years after their repatriation to Vietnam from refugee centres in Hong Kong and South East Asia.

Rousseau (1995) notes that the majority of unaccompanied children and adolescents are boys, reflecting either the family's or boy's decision, the goal of which is to remove them from war given their vulnerability to soldier activity and their ability to support the family in the future.

While there are few empirical studies investigating unaccompanied children and adolescents and those separated from family members, these populations are consistently argued to be at greater risk for psychiatric and mental health problems than their accompanied peers (Ajdukovic & Ajdukovic, 1993, 1998; Hicks et al., 1993; Kinzie et al., 1986; McCloskey, Southwick, Fernandez - Esquer & Locke, 1996; Rumbaut, 1991; Servan - Schreiber, Le Lin & Birmaher, 1998; Sourander, 1998).

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.