Sentences with phrase «unaccompanied children in»

But six years on, although the numbers are lower than before, the government is still locking up unaccompanied children in immigration detention who it mistakenly thought were adults.

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.

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.

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

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

A Christian who's been campaigning for Britain to take in 3000 unaccompanied Syrian children who've already... More

Home for Good also allows people to register their interest in fostering an unaccompanied asylum seeking child.

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

Protect unaccompanied minors by ensure that the UK plays its part in serving the needs of refugee children at risk in our country, Europe, and the wider world.

In Ashland, their children pedaled around unaccompanied on hand - me - down bikes.

I figured if an airline would not guarantee a young child be seated with their parent or guardian, they were in violation of their own unaccompanied minor policies.

MPs will today decide if 3,000 unaccompanied children who are currently in Europe should be resettled in the UK

That means accepting Save the Children's plan to bring 3,000 unaccompanied refugee children in Europe to the UK, and opting in to the wider EU relocationChildren's plan to bring 3,000 unaccompanied refugee children in Europe to the UK, and opting in to the wider EU relocationchildren in Europe to the UK, and opting in to the wider EU relocation scheme.

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.

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.

The most recent figures show that only a fifth of all those unaccompanied children were granted asylum, and the rate at which children receive asylum has dropped in recent years.

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

Over the past year I have been researching the struggle faced by unaccompanied asylum - seeking children that arrive in the UK looking for protection.

When an unaccompanied child arrives in Britain, they often don't have any easy way of proving their age.

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.

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.

Ms. Mark - Viverito proudly announced that the multi-million-dollar New York City Unaccompanied Minors Initiative, started last year to handle the cases of the thousands of underage children pouring in without their parents, has successfully gotten free lawyers for some 1,600 foreign national boys and girls and won asylum for 14 of them — meeting the speaker's goal of providing legal representation to every unaccompanied child facingUnaccompanied Minors Initiative, started last year to handle the cases of the thousands of underage children pouring in without their parents, has successfully gotten free lawyers for some 1,600 foreign national boys and girls and won asylum for 14 of them — meeting the speaker's goal of providing legal representation to every unaccompanied child facingunaccompanied child facing deportation.

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.

Syracuse could be a potential landing spot for unaccompanied immigrant children who've been crossing the Mexican border in droves in recent months.

One of my biggest concerns is the hundreds of unaccompanied children who are thought to be resident in the section of the camp which is currently being demolished.

A majority (59.7 %) of children in the Calais camp are unaccompanied by any adult.

Last night MPs voted by 294 votes to 276 to block plans to help 3,000 unaccompanied child refugees in Europe.

The Home Office has confirmed it is looking at plans to forcibly remove hundreds of unaccompanied children who are seeking asylum in the UK.

The Council has previously taken steps to help provide lawyers for unaccompanied minors appearing in immigration courts in New York, putting up funding to connect the children with legal services.

She boosted the city budget to include more money to connect unaccompanied minor children facing immigration cases with lawyers to argue on their behalf in court during an immigration surge docket.

The speaker noted that under her tenure, the City Council has passed legislation significantly reducing the city's cooperation with immigration enforcement efforts except in the cases of violent offenders, and that it has fully financed programs that offer universal representation to detained immigrants and unaccompanied minors and young mothers with children placed in expedited removal proceedings.

The Office for New Americans also recently launched another first - in - the - nation program to support parents and families caring for unaccompanied and / or undocumented children through a partnership with the Children's Village and its Office for New Americans Centers at Central American Refugee Center in Long Island and Neighbors Link in Westchesterchildren through a partnership with the Children's Village and its Office for New Americans Centers at Central American Refugee Center in Long Island and Neighbors Link in WestchesterChildren's Village and its Office for New Americans Centers at Central American Refugee Center in Long Island and Neighbors Link in Westchester County.

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.

Thousands of families and unaccompanied children have been coming to the U.S. in recent months, fleeing violence in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras.

«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 council's unaccompanied minors initiative was launched in 2014 following a surge in children fleeing Central America and crossing the southern border into the U.S. seeking permanent residency in the states.

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.

Internally Displaced Persons IIDPs) in Mogadishu face risks to their lives, safety, security and dignity and are at disproportionate risk of gross human rights abuses especially women and unaccompanied children.

In the case of unaccompanied children, education will keep them out of the street and they are less likely to be exposed to employers who might exploit them.

(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.)

Councils, which are responsible for finding school places for unaccompanied refugees, have called for further clarity on how much additional funding will be provided to help schools to take the children in.

Earlier this month, the American Civil Liberties Union revealed in a lawsuit on behalf of three undocumented immigrant youth that the federal agency is teaming up with police departments (including the 250 law enforcement agencies operated by traditional district schools) to pick up, detain, and ultimately, deport unaccompanied refugee children and other undocumented minors.

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 193In 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 193in 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 193in 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