Anger Builds Where Obama Seeks Shelter for Immigrant Children
[BLOOMBERG] Amid a resurgence in the pace of unaccompanied migrant children crossing the U.S. border, President Barack Obama
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is facing angry opposition as he searches for places to house them temporarily.
The administration is attempting to assemble a network of shelters on military bases and other federal facilities to lodge thousands of children
...mostly boys aged 15-19 years? | awaiting immigration proceedings after fleeing violence in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. That's hit a nerve in communities, some in crucial presidential swing states such as Colorado and Florida, where potential facilities were announced without community input and later scrapped.
"I don't want a military base to be an orphanage," said Veronica Kemeny, president of the Republican Veterans of Florida, who lives in Panama City near an Air Force Base that was named as a potential shelter.
Posted by: Fred 2016-02-17 |