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Erin Siegal McIntyre is a independent investigative journalist. She is a Senior Fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism at Brandeis University and the author of "Finding Fernanda."
Will Migrant Central American Children Held In Shelters End Up In U.S. Foster Care?
The Associated Press is reporting that foster care advocates claim the U.S. government won’t likely be able to reunite thousands of children separated from parents who crossed the border.
That's because, in part, many relatives living without legal documentation likely fear coming forward, even to retrieve kids. In doing so, they would run the real risk of being detained or deported themselves.
The story notes that some may end up in an American foster care system they say is "stacked against" Latinos and minorities.
More than 54,000 Hispanic children entered foster care in 2016, with more than 25,000 waiting to be adopted at the end of the fiscal year.
The AP noted that expert academics who studied the issue had found a link between immigration enforcement and an increase in Hispanic children in the American foster care system.
"...In a July 2017 paper, San Diego State University economics department chair Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Oxford University professor Esther Arenas-Arroyo wrote that the increase in immigration enforcement between 2001 and 2015 contributed to raising the share of Hispanic children in foster care between 15 and 21 percent."
