The federal government plans to place as many as 1,400 unaccompanied migrant children in makeshift housing on the Fort Sill Army installation in Oklahoma, officials announced Tuesday.
The Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) is required by law to provide shelter, health care and other services for migrant children who are either apprehended alone or with anyone other than their own parents, but the agency is grappling with an unexpected surge in such children. As a result, officials say the agency’s more than 167 shelters across the country could be insufficient to house what it’s calling an “influx” of children.
According to agency statistics, ORR took in 40,900 children during the first seven months of the current fiscal year, an increase of 57% from last year.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/migrant-children-to-be-kept-at-armys-fort-sill-in-oklahoma/
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