Posted on 11/04/2021 6:58:13 PM PDT by elpadre
Some children who were evacuated from Afghanistan and are being cared for at a Chicago shelter for immigrant minors have hurt themselves, harmed other children or threatened staff. Others have tried to escape or talked about wanting to die. Some have required psychiatric hospitalization.
These events at the shelter were described by three employees and other people familiar with the conditions there, as well as being detailed in police records and internal documents obtained by ProPublica.
Employees at the shelter, which is operated by the nonprofit Heartland Alliance, say they are overwhelmed and ill-equipped to care for the roughly 40 Afghan children and teens placed there by the US government, many of them traumatized by war in their homeland and their hasty evacuation.
The employees said they have never experienced this level of disorganization or stress, even though some of them worked through the chaos inside Heartland shelters following the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance immigration policy of separating children from their parents.
Language and cultural barriers have exacerbated the problem. Workers said no employees speak Pashto or Dari, the children’s main languages, and access to phone-based interpretation lines is limited, making it difficult to deescalate tense encounters.
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Clearly, they would be happier in Afghanistan.
send them back
Well Joe left a lot of cool toys back there. Rocket launchers, fully automatic rifles and a host of other goodies Santa Claus won’t leave me. it makes me want to go there to see what I can find.
What will these kids grow up to be??? In this environment it has all the appearances of turning out young terrorists anxious for revenge against a country which has caused great trauma to impressionable kids.
from the article:
“..In spite of Heartland’s efforts, the shelter has been the scene of a series of troubling incidents, described in police records, internal documents and interviews. In emails sent to management and staff last week, one shelter worker wrote that the young Afghans were “displaying behavior that I have not seen in my almost five years at [Heartland].” Another wrote that police and ambulance workers had been on site “a record amount over the last few days and weeks alone.”
Maybe they should talk to my President Donald J. Trump, when he’s back in the WH! He’s much nicer than what’s stunk up the place.
LETS GO BRANDON !!
I’m sure it’s nothing $450,000 wouldn’t take care of.
40? Just 40? These non profits sign up for this crap. Now they claim the system is broken...sounds like they are broken.
Get/hire somebody that speaks the language...I mean come on...yall hauled over a bunch of Afghanis...
Sound like a play for money.
Lots of genetic inbreeding in Afghanistan with everything that goes with it. Just sayin’.
Crapping anywhere they feel like?
Send them back.
L
The underlying premise of the article is that they deserve to be here. They do not, and neither do many or most of their parents.
They need to adapt to their environment, and not the other way around.
Definitely.
Sodomy
I wonder, have any of them begging ‘to be sent back’ actually gotten their wish? Most do not belong here. The cultures are too different without some level of preperation.
Chicago. Sounds like they’re assimilating nicely.
displaying what behavior ???
Send Them Back.
If you do go can I have all your stuff? ; )
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