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Unaccompanied Alien Children (or UAC, also referred to as unaccompanied alien minors [1] or UAMs [2]) is a United States government classification for children in immigration custody and the name of a program operated by the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR; a division of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, HHS) to ...
Earlier this year, the watchdog for the Department of Homeland Security found that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was unable to “monitor all unaccompanied migrant children” released ...
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) may have lost track of thousands of children who immigrated to the country as unaccompanied minors, imperiling both the children’s safety and the ...
The URM program is administered at the state level with federal funding. The state refugee coordinator provides financial and programmatic oversight to the URM programs in their state, ensures that unaccompanied minors in URM programs receive the same benefits and services as other children in out-of-home care in the state, and oversees the needs of unaccompanied minors with many other ...
An unaccompanied minor (sometimes "unaccompanied child" or "separated child") is a child without the presence of a legal guardian.. The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child defines unaccompanied minors and unaccompanied children as those "who have been separated from both parents and other relatives and are not being cared for by an adult who, by law or custom, is responsible for doing so."
In 2022, California launched a first-of-its-kind pilot program to support unaccompanied immigrant children in our state. The Children’s Holistic Immigration Representation Project, ...
The 2014 American immigration crisis was a surge in unaccompanied children and women from the Northern Triangle of Central America (NTCA) seeking entrance to the United States in 2014. According to U.S. law, an unaccompanied alien child refers to a person under 18 years of age, who has no lawful immigration status in the U.S., and who does not ...
The Biden administration is turning to the Federal Emergency Management Agency for help managing and caring for record numbers of unaccompanied immigrant children who are streaming into the United ...