USCRI featured in FRONTLINE article

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The Associated Press and the PBS series FRONTLINE have spent months investigating the trauma that migrant children experience while being held in government custody. Published today, their s ([link removed]) tory ([link removed]) reveals that over the last year the U.S. has held nearly 70,000 children in shelters nationwide, more than ever before in U.S. history. This is despite the fact that being held in detention can result in long-term physical and emotional damage to children.

USCRI is proud to be recognized as a bright spot in this dismal situation. FRONTLINE and the AP are holding up USCRI's work as a model for how to effectively serve migrant children and deported young adults, describing our shelter as follows:

“(The shelter) is different than other facilities holding migrant children. There is no uniformed security guard.... The residents... can call their families as needed (and) are free to wander in a large, outdoor area, or “shop” in a store filled with donated items. Case workers hustle to reunite them with family in the U.S. quickly... And costs to taxpayers are a third of the $775 per day costs at large, emergency shelters where kids sleep 100 to a room."

USCRI continues to strongly condemn the family separation policy. But if there are children in need, we will be there for them. We are determined to provide safe, loving care for migrant children and to help deported children in Central America build new lives of hope and opportunity.

Our work is not possible without you. As a nonprofit organization, USCRI relies on donations from supporters like you. Please make a generous gift today and help migrant children find security, comfort and hope for a new future. ([link removed]) Thank you.
Girls dance as they do exercises at USCRI's Rinconcito del Sol shelter for migrant teenage girls in Lake Worth, FL. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

As our shelter director Elcy Valdez says, “Here we change lives. The girls come in very sad, nervous, not knowing what to expect, unsure what the future holds for them. We give them that sense of security, of safety for the first time.”

With gratitude,

Eskinder Negash
President and CEO
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