https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2014/1028/What-happened-to-kids-in-summer-border-crisis-Why-cases-slowed-to-a-crawl
“Under a White House directive, courts are sending minors to the front of the line as they focus on the cases of the more recent arrivals. Indeed, hearings are being scheduled for the youths in a relatively short time. But the some of the same factors that result in lengthy, drawn-out cases for adults fighting deportation – including a shortage of judges, not enough pro-bono attorneys, case continuances, and transfers from one state to another – are also slowing down proceedings for minors.
For example, between July 18 and Sept. 2, immigrations courts adjudicated 337 of 5,363 cases involving minors from Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador who crossed the border after May 1. In the completed cases, 304 youths were deemed deportable. On the remaining 33 cases, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) exercised its prosecutorial discretion, which usually staves off deportation.’
Finding attorneys
Since immigration violations are civil and not criminal offenses, the government is not required to provide attorneys for the youths. But legal representation for the minors is at the crux of a class-action suit that the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and other advocacy groups filed in July to force the federal government to pay for legal representation for the unaccompanied youths.
The government is seeking dismissal of the suit, while at the same time the Department of Justice has awarded $1.8 million in grants to groups providing legal assistance to minors. And in late September, the federal Department of Health and Human Services, which is charged with the care of border-crossers who are minors and come without a guardian, announced it also would provide $9 million in funding over two years toward legal representation for the youths.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2014/07/another-border-crisis-victim-foster-kids-richard-mckenzie/
The humanitarian crisis on the border could easily transition into a tragedy for all foster-care children — foreign and American — forced to live in a seriously broken system further burdened by the surge.
As it is, many of the approximately 400,000 American foster-care children face “permanent temporary” lives of going from one placement to the next to the next. Many are cycled through so many placements that when they age out of the system at age 18, they cannot count their placements. For children who age out of the system, life prospects are bleak: 24 percent of children report being homeless on aging out of foster care at age 18; 42 percent of males and 20 percent of females report that they have been arrested; and 42 percent will not have a high-school diploma at age 19. Such outcomes, unfortunately, should not be unexpected. During their foster-care stays, many foster-care children fall further behind in school at the same time their emotional and mental problems are aggravated by their unstable lives.
Now we have this spring’s influx of tens of thousands of immigrants (or refugees, as some would classify them). If the flood continues unabated, the foster-children population could increase by 25 percent within the next year. The caseloads of already-overburdened social workers will rise, meaning that each caseworker will have more foster families to supervise and will be able to monitor each family less frequently.
To accommodate the added children, the eligibility standards for foster (and adoptive) families, as well as the care standards they must meet with the children they receive, will likely deteriorate. As with many existing immigrant foster children, school systems will be doubly burdened — many of the children now surging into the country are illiterate in Spanish, requiring ramped-up remedial Spanish lessons before they can be taught English. The surge of immigrant children will likely be accompanied by a spike in the reopening of orphanages and group homes across the country, for one main reason: They have the space and the beds, which will come at substantial prices (up to $54,000 per year per child for care and school in North Carolina, if the children don’t have emotional and behavioral problems).
Politicians and pundits have treated the immigrant-children crisis as a sad story for the children who cross the Texas border. If tens of thousands of the children are allowed to stay, it could be an even sadder story for American foster-care kids who will be forced to the front lines of the immigration war.
KNOWING WHAT WE KNOW NOW:
Democrats like to accuse others of what THEY themselves do. Many if not most of the kids that came across the border in 2014 are unaccounted for. they most likely were trafficked in the USA with the ratlines that the Clintons/Obamas/Podestas set up. This is why they are now trying to pin this on Trump. They are about to be exposed for this very crime.