EFE.- A new complex to house migrant children who came alone to USA is being enabled in The Angels, with what would already be two large reception facilities in the county to receive the minorsCounty authorities explained this Friday.
The president of the County Board of Supervisors The Angels, Hilda Solís, explained in a press conference from the Pomona Fairplex, that this center will serve as an emergency admission site to temporarily house 2,500 minors.
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“The county of The Angels has the responsibility and opportunity to care for unaccompanied minors who come to USA”, Solís explained, remembering his migrant origins and that his mother went from Nicaragua to the US in search of a better life.
“This is not a border crisis, but it is a crisis of all “, stressed the supervisor.
Solís remarked that in the past four years there was “a lot of hatred”, there was rejection and discrimination, not only against the unaccompanied children, but to many communities within the country, including the Latino one.
“But today there is hope and that hope begins here in The Angels”He insisted.
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The place will host about 2,500 kids between 2 and 17 years, explained Solís, who at the same time called on immigration lawyers and translators to join in the help that will be provided to children who seek to reunite with their families.
The announcement comes three days after the Long Beach County City Council The Angels, will vote to lend its convention center to house hundreds of kids.
The Mayor of Long Beach, the Peruvian Robert Garcia, said that as immigrant knows how important it is to “support all people, especially those who kids”And that is why I am proud to support this work.
The Long Beach Convention Center will temporarily house up to 1,000 children for a period of 90 to 120 days.
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The announcements come when the president’s government, Joe Biden, is overwhelmed with the arrival of thousands of unaccompanied children to the border.
This Thursday the Government reported that in March it had intercepted a record number of unaccompanied minors by a parent or legal guardian.
The 18,890 minors found last month, double the number in February (9,431), are only part of the 172,000 migrants intercepted at the border with Mexico and that, for the most part, they are expelled from the country.
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