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Group Providing Clothing, Books to Migrant Children
A committee of the United States Senate is studying the Trump1 administration’s “zero tolerance2” policy for migrant families. The policy is directed at individuals who crossed the U.S. border with Mexico. Those who entered the U.S. illegally were detained3. The children were held separately from their parents.
On June 20, President Donald Trump signed an order cancelling the family separations after a series of protests across the country.
Last week, a federal judge credited the government with reuniting more than 1,800 children with their parents or guardians4. But the judge also said the government is responsible for expelling5 the parents of more than 400 children without reuniting those families.
The boys and girls have been living in shelters in Texas and three other states. They are receiving backpacks filled with clothing, books and other supplies from Comfort Cases, a non-profit group in Maryland.
Rob Scheer is the founder6 of the group.
“We have children who have walked into our country that needed us. They need us.”
Scheer says he and his husband Reece set up Comfort Cases in 2013 partly because of his experience as a child in the U.S. foster7 care system. Today, the group serves about 39 states, Washington, D.C. and U.S. territories, including Puerto Rico.
Scheer says their hope is to give a child that “sense of dignity” and to provide the children with something to hold their possessions. Children living in foster care are often moved from home to home, and many have only a plastic bag to hold their few belongings8.
As a child, Scheer had to move his belongings the same way. Some 40 years later, he and his husband agreed to accept four children from the foster care system as members of their family.
Migrant children
Once Scheer heard about the family separations, he called his team and volunteers and said they could not just sit back and watch what was happening.
“At the end of the day, I don't walk in the shoes of their parents. I can't tell you the reasons why they came to the border or why they entered our country. The only thing that I can tell you is that they're here. And these children need us.”
Marli Abramowitz is a volunteer at Comfort Cases. Abramowitz said as soon as news about the separations began to spread, the team prepared and shipped backpacks to McAllen, Texas.
“For the migrant kids, we have special stuffed animals that were made by a woman who donated, I think, a thousand of them...They also get a Spanish book and an English book, or they get a book that's half Spanish, half English.”
In 2017, Comfort Cases donated 11,000 backpacks. This year, that number is set to hit 14,000.
Linda Walker, who has been volunteering with the nonprofit for the past six months, said she immediately felt the group had an important job.
It had to overcome some administrative9 problems to reach the children, she explained, but hopes the backpacks hold “everyday necessities,” as well as the message that the migrants are welcome here.
“It’s something that could have been avoided, Now they don’t have their parents. It’s going to be a hard journey to get them back. You can’t rip10 children away from their parents. It’s unacceptable."
I’m Susan Shand.
Words in This Story
tolerance – n. ability to overcome pain or hardship
migrant – n. someone who moves from place to place, usually to find work
backpack – n. a piece of equipment designed to carry things on one’s back
foster care – n. a situation in which a child lives with and is cared for by people who are not the child’s parents
dignity – n. the quality of being worthy11 of respect
charity – n. a group that hel
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