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Oh that is outrageous!! We need to deport them not give them $1700 a month and a cell phone. WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS STUPID GOVERNMENT?!! $1,700 would buy them a first class ticket back to their countries. Put their asses on a plane and get them out of here.

Always the stories of pitiful illegal aliens and their adversities. The children are purposely used as sympathy figures for the stories. No need to separate yourselves as families. You made these decisions. Stop asking the American people to continue to allow this. Protest your government, your leaders, in your own country.

Where are are the stories in mainstream media of Americans whose children are sad and hungry and fearful of losing their home or parent who has to go somewhere far away to work or find a job because illegal aliens have taken so many jobs. Where are the sad stories of Americans killed by illegal aliens or the ones of Americans who fight to clear their names and credit because of illegal aliens who steal their identities? Where are the stories of Americans who are fearful because illegal aliens live on their streets or in their neighborhoods. Where are the stories from mainstream media about the billions of dollars we spend on illegal immigration here in the United States and the billions of dollars that leave the nation in remittances.

Originally Posted by Judy

Oh that is outrageous!! We need to deport them not give them $1700 a month and a cell phone. WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS STUPID GOVERNMENT?!! $1,700 would buy them a first class ticket back to their countries. Put their asses on a plane and get them out of here.

Put their asses on a bus for $89 bucks one way to the border!

@ 133,000 in 3 years PLACED with sponsors (some are illegal aliens)....due to the act that says we must take them in, they will not be deported and wonder if they will be able to petition for their entire family; probably 10 siblings each, parents.

Why should we pay for them to live in the USA? We are sending monies to their countries. Some have already proven to be gang members and are working for drug cartels. Diseases like their specific polio strain that has harmed our children as they sit next to them in school. Resistant head lice.



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Unaccompanied Children Released to Sponsors By State

When a child who is not accompanied by a parent or legal guardian is apprehended by immigration authorities, the child is transferred to the care and custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR). Federal law requires that ORR feed, shelter, and provide medical care for unaccompanied children until it is able to release them to safe settings with sponsors (usually family members), while they await immigration proceedings. These sponsors live in many states.


Sponsors are adults who are suitable to provide for the child’s physical and mental well-being and have not engaged in any activity that would indicate a potential risk to the child. All sponsors must pass a background check. The sponsor must agree to ensure the child’s presence at all future immigration proceedings. They also must agree to ensure the minor reports to ICE for removal from the United States if an immigration judge issues a removal order or voluntary departure order.


HHS is engaging with state officials to address concerns they may have about the care or impact of unaccompanied children in their states, while making sure the children are treated humanely and consistent with the law as they go through immigration court proceedings that will determine whether they will be removed and repatriated, or qualify for some form of relief.


HHS has strong policies in place to ensure the privacy and safety of unaccompanied children by maintaining the confidentiality of their personal information. These children may have histories of abuse or may be seeking safety from threats of violence. They may have been trafficked or smuggled. HHS cannot release information about individual children that could compromise the child’s location or identity.


The data in the table below shows state-by-state data of unaccompanied children released to sponsors as of September 30, 2016. ACF will update this data each month. ACF will update this data each month. View unaccompanied children released to sponsors by county.


Please note: ORR makes considerable effort to provide precise and timely data to the public, but adjustments occasionally occur following review and reconciliation. The FY2014 release data posted in the chart below were updated on March 13, 2015. The FY2015 release data were updated May 9, 2016. Questions may be addressed to ORR directly, at (202) 401-9246.
Unaccompanied Children Release Data

State	Total Number of UC Released to Sponsors FY 2014 (October 2013 – September 2014)	Total Number of UC Released to Sponsors in FY 2015 (October 2014 – September 2015)*	Total Number of UC Released to Sponsors in FY16 (October 2015 – September 2016)
Alabama	786	808	870
Alaska	4	2	5
Arizona	295	167	330
Arkansas	307	186	309
California	5,831	3,629	7,381
Colorado	426	248	427
Connecticut	552	206	454
Delaware	212	152	275
District of Columbia	375	201	432
Florida	5,445	2,908	5,281
Georgia	2,047	1,041	1,735
Hawaii	8	2	4
Idaho	19	11	39
Illinois	552	312	519
Indiana	448	240	354
Iowa	235	201	352
Kansas	312	245	326
Kentucky	413	274	503
Louisiana	1,755	480	973
Maine	17	4	9
Maryland	3,884	1,794	3,871
Massachusetts	1,372	738	1,541
Michigan	193	132	227
Minnesota	304	243	318
Mississippi	290	207	300
Missouri	222	170	261
Montana	1	2	0
Nebraska	351	293	486
Nevada	228	137	283
New Hampshire	35	14	25
New Jersey	2,680	1,462	2,637
New Mexico	41	19	65
New York	5,955	2,630	4,985
North Carolina	2,064	844	1,493
North Dakota	4	2	10
Ohio	635	483	693
Oklahoma	377	225	301
Oregon	115	122	188
Pennsylvania	660	333	604
Rhode Island	203	185	269
South Carolina	588	294	562
South Dakota	48	61	81
Tennessee	1,294	765	1,354
Texas	7,409	3,272	6,550
Utah	119	62	126
Vermont	3	1	1
Virginia	3,887	1,694	3,728
Washington	391	283	476
West Virginia	30	12	26
Wisconsin	85	38	85
Wyoming	8	6	23
TOTAL	53,515	27,840	52,147

*The FY2015 numbers have been reconciled.
For more information, please read ORR’s reunification policy.







Last Reviewed: October 20, 2016




http://www.acf.hhs.gov/orr/programs/...laced-sponsors

Hand them over into the care and custody of THEIR Embassy for deportation. Send them to their President and let him take care of them!

These children are used as pawns in the big money making machine and MUST all be sent back.

All set up for open borders NAU...Americans should pay $$$ for all overpopulating poor from other countries. This is different than illegals to be deported - UACs will not be and will petition for all family members especially since obama categorized them as "refugees" with full entitlements. They do not fit the criteria of "refugees".

Unaccompanied Children's Services

On March 1, 2003, the Homeland Security Act of 2002, Section 462, transferred responsibilities for the care and placement of unaccompanied children from the Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service to the Director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR).

Since then, ORR has cared for more than 175,000 children, incorporating child welfare values as well as the principles and provisions established by the Flores Agreement in 1997, the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 and its reauthorization acts, the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA) of 2005 and 2008.

Unaccompanied children apprehended by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) immigration officials are transferred to the care and custody of ORR. ORR promptly places an unaccompanied child in the least restrictive setting that is in the best interests of the child, taking into consideration danger to self, danger to the community, and risk of flight. ORR takes into consideration the unique nature of each child’s situation and incorporates child welfare principles when making placement, clinical, case management, and release decisions that are in the best interest of the child.

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http://www.acf.hhs.gov/orr/programs/ucs

artist, thank you so much for posting that information. Most of US had no idea what was happening.

Trump needs to repeal that act. Hundreds of thousands of central americans with full refugee entitlements is a huge drain on our funds, a health risk and will 12x the numbers when all the family comes here too. Another evil that obama found to use against Amercian citizens for his globalists redistribution of wealth scheme.

If things were so bad in their countries would they be reproducing left and right, would they have the money for the trek or to pay smugglers? The drug cartels are paying for everything to have them here in America so they have a foothold to deal drugs. There are many, many vicious crimes committed by hondurans, el savadorans, costa ricans. They have no respect for women or life - you risk your life traveling to their countries as you do to mexico. Resort towns only if you value your life.

The mental instability, violence is similar to the muslims - inbreeding galore. Start the vicious cycle with your 11 yr old daughter, sister, niece is common.

Trump has a lot on his plate with criminal illegals but hope he repeals this UAC act immediately. They cannot be deported like an alien can be.

Their President's and their Churches can put them in SAFE ZONE on their soil. They have plenty of land. NOT OURS!

Good example of what 17,000 salvadorans can do to an area on Long Island NY, 40 miles from Manhatten. You can bet that many of those UACs are placed with such "families". They continue their ways here in USA because they do not assimilate to American ways, a requirement. All their garbage ways are continued here.

‘They Keep Finding Bodies’: Gang Violence in Long Island Town Fuels Immigration Debate

By LIZ ROBBINS and ALAN FEUEROCT. 2, 2016




Residents of Brentwood, N.Y., at a memorial for Nisa Mickens, 15, who was murdered along with her best friend, Kayla Cuevas, 16, last month. The police suspect MS-13, a transnational gang, in the killings. Credit Heather Walsh for The New York Times BRENTWOOD, N.Y. — Four dead teenagers. Two weeks. One town. And a ruthless gang, the authorities say, was most likely responsible for the toll. Again.
On Sept. 13, Nisa Mickens, 15, and her best friend, Kayla Cuevas, 16, were murdered, their battered bodies found near an elementary school here. A week later and just two miles away, the skeletal remains of two more teenagers — identified as Oscar Acosta, 19, and Miguel Garcia-Moran, 15 — were found in the woods near a psychiatric hospital. Oscar had been missing since May, Miguel since February. Their deaths have been ruled homicides.

Brentwood, a hardscrabble town of nearly 60,000 on Long Island, 40 miles east of Manhattan, has reached another crisis point. For nearly two decades, MS-13, a gang with roots in Los Angeles and El Salvador, has been terrorizing the town, the authorities say, especially its young people. Since 2009, its members have been accused of at least 14 murders, court and police records show.

School officials are scrambling. Police officers are searching. Students are frightened. Parents are anguished.

“It’s so hard, I’m hurting,” Evelyn Rodriguez, Kayla’s mother, said last week. “I wish I could hold my daughter again.”



Clockwise from top left, Oscar Acosta, Kayla Cuevas, Miguel Garcia-Moran and Nisa Mickens. In her first interview since Kayla’s funeral, Ms. Rodriguez spoke measuredly about how her daughter had been bullied by gang members inside and outside her high school.

“To me, it’s worse than it was before; it’s everywhere,” said Ms. Rodriguez, a 1987 graduate of Brentwood Ross High School, where her daughter was a student. “This is ridiculous,” she added. “We need some type of assistance to help our police officers here and see if they can come together to figure out a plan to make things better for the kids now.”

The path to such a plan, however, runs through a fractured Suffolk County. Its former police chief is headed to jail, its district attorney is under federal investigation and a Justice Department settlement mandated changes in the Police Department in 2013 after findings of bias against Latino residents.

Tensions simmer here because some residents say they believe an increase in Central American migrants to town has led to the increase in gang violence. According to 2014 census figures compiled by Queens College, Brentwood’s population is 68 percent Latino or Hispanic, with more than 17,000 residents claiming to be from El Salvador.

Timothy Sini, who became the Suffolk County police commissioner 11 months ago, after his predecessor, James Burke, pleaded guilty to civil rights violations and obstruction of justice, has vowed to eradicate the gangs.


Evelyn Rodriguez and Freddy Cuevas, Kayla’s parents. “It’s so hard, I’m hurting,” Ms. Rodriguez, said. “I wish I could hold my daughter again.” Credit Heather Walsh for The New York Times “The only people in Brentwood who have anything to fear are the criminals,” Mr. Sini said. “That’s because there is a tsunami of law enforcement officers at their doorsteps.”
The department has increased uniformed patrols and door-to-door canvassing, and rejoined the eight-member Long Island Gang Task Force of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Mr. Sini said he met recently with dozens of agencies including Homeland Security Investigations and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
“It’s not a good time to be a gang member in Brentwood,” he said.
One gang member was arrested and was in federal custody for questioning, Mr. Sini added, although a motive for the murders was still unclear. The F.B.I. confirmed it was assisting the police.
The Brentwood School District held a community forum last month with elected officials and parents that ran for four hours.
There, according to Ms. Rodriguez, school officials said some students had been “red-flagged” for having possible gang affiliations.
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Rob Mickens and Elizabeth Alvarado, Nisa’s parents, at a vigil for the girls last month. Credit Heather Walsh for The New York Times “So if they are red-flagged, why are they in the school?” Ms. Rodriguez said. “Kids are being targeted. They’re trying to find some type of safe way to even go to school,” she added. “Being in school, they always have to look over their shoulder to see who’s walking.”
Brentwood has 4,400 high school students divided into two schools, and administrators say the environment is safe.
“Gang members rarely present themselves in the schools,” Richard Loeschner, the principal of Brentwood Ross High School, said. “If they do, we take care of that pretty quickly.”
But ultimately, he said, after acknowledging that the administration knew of about 20 to 25 students in the district with possible gang affiliations, there is only so much officials can do.
“We can’t exclude a kid because we suspect they are in a gang,” Mr. Loeschner said. “That’s state and federal law that they are entitled to an education.”
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Levi McIntyre, the superintendent of the Brentwood School District, at Kayla’s wake. “It’s tearing the fabric of our community apart,” Dr. McIntyre said of gang violence in the town. Credit Heather Walsh for The New York Times Even before the girls’ murders, students were subject to random screenings with metal detectors, which have increased over the past few weeks, he added. There are no detectors at the entrances of either high school, however.

Some parents were concerned that the school’s response to the violence was not proactive enough. Levi McIntyre, the school superintendent, sent an email to parents warning their children not to wear royal blue, the color identified with MS-13, or clothes displaying the Salvadoran flag. A student on the way to school, he wrote, recently had his blue shirt torn off by gang members and burned.

MS-13 was formed in Los Angeles in the 1980s by immigrants from El Salvador escaping civil war. The abbreviation stands for Mara Salvatrucha, which roughly translates to “Salvadoran street posse.”

The authorities say the gang has been in Suffolk County since around 1998, and is organized in cliques bearing names like the Brentwood Locos Salvatruchas. Leaders gather to discuss their lines of business — extortion, prostitution, robbery, drug dealing — and to authorize the killings of chavalas, or members of rival gangs like the Bloods and the Crips, court papers say.

In 2009, a 15-year-old boy, Christopher Hamilton, was fatally shot in the head after an MS-13 crew in search of chavalas opened fire with rifles and handguns on a house party on American Boulevard here.


The scene outside Kayla’s wake. Credit Heather Walsh for The New York Times Two years later, an 18-year-old Brentwood man was fatally shot in his driveway, and a 22-year-old local leader of MS-13 was convicted of the killing.

“In the past, it used to be like rival gangs on each other,” Dr. McIntyre said. “But now it has taken another turn. When it goes after all kids, it’s a whole new realm. It’s tearing the fabric of our community apart.”

Noel Vega’s son was a classmate of the murdered girls, who wondered whether he could be next.

“He’s more upset about the fact that they keep finding bodies,” Mr. Vega said, standing outside a Brentwood funeral home for Kayla’s wake with fellow members of the Christian Motorcyclists Association. They are not the only group offering unofficial security to the town; he noted that the crisis even brought the Guardian Angels to Brentwood.

Of his son, Mr. Vega added: “He actually wants to move out of Brentwood; he wants to move out of state. He’s upset and he fears for the loss of his friends and himself. It gets me upset; we all get upset.”

The recent murders have exacerbated disputes in the town over immigration policy, which Donald J. Trump, the Republican candidate for president, fueled during last week’s debate by saying that the gangs roaming the streets were made up of illegal immigrants.



Friends of Kayla wore T-shirts designed in her honor to her wake. Credit Heather Walsh for The New York Times “There’s been a huge influx, to be honest with you,” said Ray Mayo, the president of the Brentwood Association of Concerned Citizens, who added that he was upset over undocumented immigrants crowding rental properties. “It seems like a whole new set of gang members who have stirred the pot up.”

Two law enforcement authorities, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the continuing murder investigation, said that over the last several years the gang has sought to enlist recent immigrants from Central America because they are often more vulnerable to recruitment.

But some recently settled families are just as worried about their own children’s safety.

“I am afraid, as a Salvadoran,” said Ana, 38, a mother of two girls, one in high school. She fled El Salvador in 2006 and has since become a member of Make the Road New York, an immigrant activist group. She did not want to give her full name for fear of retribution.

“It makes me feel bad that people think this of all Salvadorans,” she said. “Violence was the reason I left — when they killed my brother. And now we are experiencing the same violence.”

Distrust of the Suffolk County police among Latinos is palpable and long documented. Residents said they were dismayed by a dearth of Spanish-speaking officers, and undocumented immigrants in particular often worry that if they report information, the authorities will turn them over to immigration officials.



Supporters at the girls’ vigil. The murders have exacerbated disputes in the town over immigration policy. Credit Heather Walsh for The New York Times Mr. Sini said that would not happen, and that he was trying to reassure immigrant communities to work with the police.

Ms. Rodriguez, whose parents came from Puerto Rico, said that two years ago, when gang members threatened Kayla on a friend’s block, she went to the police.
“I got attitude like they were talking to somebody off the street,” Ms. Rodriguez said. “They wouldn’t even report it,” she added. “They told me to tell her: ‘Don’t go on the block.’”

The feeling of helplessness is spreading among the teenagers.

At a vigil held for the murdered girls before a football game, some students held signs: “Help Us!” “Stop the Violence!” Others shook their heads when Mr. Sini told students to call a hotline for investigative tips.

“We’re the ones out here, dealing with it all,” said a 16-year-old boy who would give only his nickname, Tiny T. “They think they can do something, but they’re just fooling. They can’t do nothing.”

At Kayla’s wake, a 17-year-old student too afraid of MS-13 to give his name said: “You don’t know who’s watching you, who’s following you. Just yesterday, a group of guys in a car with blue bandannas followed a girl home in Brentwood.”

He, his mother and his cousin wore T-shirts that read “Justice for Kayla,” which they had printed at the mall. “Afraid?” his cousin, a 19-year-old woman, said. “There’s not even a limit to afraid.”

At memorials for both Kayla and Nisa, on the cul-de-sac near where their bodies were found, basketballs sat among the glass candles and deflated balloons. Kayla, a tenacious athlete, was going to try out for the varsity basketball team this year.

Instead, her mother was starting a scholarship fund called Ball Is My Life.

Ms. Rodriguez hoped her daughter’s death would at least stop the cycle. “It can’t go on anymore,” she said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/03/ny...on-debate.html