Posted on 07/23/2014 5:14:04 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
HARRISBURG — An influx of unaccompanied children crossing the U.S. border is spilling over into Pennsylvania, as state officials received word Monday that more than 500 are being housed in the commonwealth.
Those include 120 children staying at two temporary centers and 386 others who have been placed in the care of relatives or religious groups that have agreed to house them, said Kathaleen Gillis, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Public Welfare. The federal government manages the care of the unaccompanied immigrant children.
State officials received information about the children in Pennsylvania from the federal Department of Health and Human Services only after repeated requests. Gillis said state officials still don’t know exactly where the 386 children staying with sponsors are or who those sponsors are.
“That’s been a challenge,” she said. “We keep hearing anecdotal reports of where the children are going.”
The children housed in temporary centers – one in Bethlehem and the other near Reading – are supposed to stay only 35 days. The Bethlehem center is operated by KidsPeace, a nonprofit that provides a variety of mental and behavioral services to children. The other center is located at Bethany Children’s Home in Womelsdorf outside Reading.
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Gonorrhea? Syphilis?
Places where they can disappear into the local area, you mean.
STDs
Obama must love it when he sees these pictures featuring what I call the Mexican salute. He's figuratively doing the same thing to us everytime he rains insults and punishments on the American people from his throne in the Oval Office.
Leni
“what I call the Mexican salute”
LOL... never heard it called that... but appropriate!!!
Obama lies so much... he can’t remember what he lied about last. In his first speech about the border crisis (of course he stated it was a “humanitarian situation”), he said that all the GOP needed to do was amend the law for central American kids so he could send them back right away. Well, they did that, and the dems refused to sign it.
Okay, we've been told by the Gov't that for every child apprehended at the border this year, we're seeing 4 adult illegal aliens. My question is - where is the Office of Refugee Resettlement sending them? Are they arriving in Harrisburg, too? Or are they being kept in detention for deportation? I certainly doubt that!
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