Unaccompanied children

 Miami Herald: Proposed Florida child migrant shelter rule could cost millions of dollarsRequired welfare inspections of shelters housing unaccompanied migrant children — included in a proposed Florida rule — could cost millions of dollars to groups running the shelters. The proposed rule also would deny state licenses to the shelters unless Florida reaches a resettlement agreement with the federal government.

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Migrant Children

Politico: Texas, U.S. fight over care of 4,500 migrant childrenTexas and the U.S. government are in an escalating battle over a state plan to close — beginning Aug. 31 — a shelter that houses 4,500 unaccompanied immigrant children. Several other states declined to aid the federal government’s efforts to house tens of thousands of unaccompanied…

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Catholic spirit

Catholic Spirit: Catholic school gets $12 million from immigrant father of Amazon founderMiguel Bezos, father of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, donated $12 million to a Delaware Catholic school that educated and housed him after he arrived in the United States from Cuba in the 1960s as an unaccompanied minor. He was one of 14,000 Cuban minors…

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