With Surge in Child Migrants, New York Forms Task Force on Aiding Them

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/18/nyregion/new-york-creates-task-force-in-response-to-surge-of-child-migrants.html

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New York City officials have formed a task force in response to the surging population of unaccompanied migrant children from Central America who have arrived in the city in recent months and swamped community-based groups in search of help for their deportation cases, health issues, school enrollment and other urgent needs.

Since last October, federal officials have sent more than 3,200 child migrants to the city and elsewhere in the state to reunite with relatives or to live with guardians, and about 7,000 more are expected to follow in the coming months, according to immigrants’ advocates and others who have been briefed by federal authorities.
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1. Miner To Obama: Syracuse Open To Immigrant Children

Nick Reisman

As concerns and tensions grow at the country’s southern border over undocumented immigrant children, Syracuse Stephanie Miner wrote in a letter released Thursday to President Obama opening her city.

“Our nation is rightly proud to point to the famous promise at the entrance to New York Harbor: ‘send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,’” Miner wrote in the letter to Obama. “Here in Syracuse, we stand ready to live up to that promise.”

http://www.nystateofpolitics.com/2014/07/miner-to-obama-syracuse-open-to-immigrant-children/