Posted on 05/03/2022 7:38:03 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Maria Hernandez spent countless hours in Honduras imagining a stable life in Los Angeles reunited with the two young daughters U.S immigration agents took from her at the border in 2017.
Instead, she and the children are living in a windowless homeless shelter a two-hour bus ride from the girls' schools, after a government program brought her to the United States earlier this year.
U.S. President Joe Biden, a Democrat, came into office in January 2021 pledging to help families like Hernandez's that were broken up at the U.S.-Mexico border by former President Donald Trump's Republican administration. Biden formed a task force to reunite those who remained apart.
Of the 200 families the task force has so far reunited, including Hernandez and her daughters, around three-quarters have struggled with housing insecurity, according to previously unreported data collected by two groups that aid them, Together & Free and Seneca Family of Agencies.
Reuters was not able to independently verify the data.
Calling it a "moral imperative" to reunite the families, a spokesperson for the U.S. Department for Homeland Security (DHS) said in a statement to Reuters that the government was working with the private sector to provide housing, when needed, and other resources, but added that funding was a challenge.
Other recently arrived migrants struggling with housing do not qualify for government support. But activists say the government has a duty to help settle families that were separated because they are suffering lasting trauma as a direct result of U.S. policies implemented by the previous administration.
The families are given temporary parole into the United States for three years, with the option to renew, and are permitted to work.
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And they say there’s a fertilizer shortage...
They would still be together if they’d stayed back in their home country.
I believe that Trump was following the law and basically doing the same thing Obama was doing. As for families being separated, the families generally do the separating themselves - thousands of parents send their children here unaccompanied.
They were “separated” for like 24 hours.
Not feeling sympathy.
Just wondering why don’t they solve this problem by getting the hell out of our country.
So Brandon put them in a windowless homeless shelter. What a guy!!
F these criminals. Send them back, dead or alive.
Exactly! No sympathy here, come here illegally, and you deserve some misery.
I thought “homeless” was being disallowed for use as being hurtful and the new approved term is “unhoused”. No? Bueller? Why yes Virginia, there be idiots out there.....
Food, money, education and now we’ve got to give these freeloaders a home too? Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot? Freestuff “refugees”. What a croak.
” Maria Hernandez spent countless hours in Honduras imagining a stable life in Los Angeles”
so .. .?
I dont care anymore.
Maria, sweetie, get the fphuck out.
Don’t post this garbage.
They invade a foreign country to steal from its citizens and then expect everything to be peaches and cream?
Illegal is ILLEGAL !!!
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