Reports indicate that the United States now has 69,950 unaccompanied children in custody. This would make the United States responsible for about the number of children in the Virginia Beach Public Schools in Virginia or the Granite School District of Salt Lake City Utah.
Except the responsibility is greater. Neither Salt Lake City nor Virginia Beach houses their school children. Neither feeds and clothes them. Neither takes care of them.
Of course, the United States is doing a pretty miserable job of feeding the unaccompanied children and clothing them. The United States is doing a terrible job of taking care of these kids. There are few social workers or psychologists to help the kids deal with having been taken away from their parents.
Recently, an organization I belong to had a presentation by an agency contracted with the United States to place unaccompanied children in foster homes. They sounded earnest, committed to children, eager to eventually place children in homes with relatives. Asked what the greatest obstacle was for serving these children effectively, the answer: The several agencies of the United States they must work with, the multiple bureaucracies they must appease.
That’s us, you know. People working for us. There are few better reasons for removing this president and electing a new one than the callousness toward the welfare of these children. Help however you can.