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It comes as border patrol appears to be processing immigrants more quickly.
The number of unaccompanied children held by border patrol has dropped about 88% since late March, but there’s still work to be done.
Vice President Kamala Harris plans to meet virtually with Mexico’s president to ask for help curbing the flow of immigrants.
The New York Times reports that Senator Chuck Schumer may try to attach a bill legalizing millions of undocumented immigrants to the president’s infrastructure bill.
That bill could be passed by a simple majority.
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ACF's Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services provides funding and oversight to state-licensed shelters throughout the United States for children referred to ORR by the Department of Homeland Security. The children are known as unaccompanied children (UC). They include both children who enter the country without their parent or legal guardian and children who, for other reasons, have been separated from their parent or legal guardian.