At-risk youth find safety, internet, food, tutoring at HALO Haven
Having a safe place to be, while going to school in the middle of a global pandemic has been increasingly difficult for youth across Kansas City.
and last updated 2021-04-21 19:39:44-04
KANSAS CITY, Mo. â Having a safe place to be, while going to school in the middle of a global pandemic has been increasingly difficult for youth across Kansas City.
Carly Schultz is the program director at the HALO Foundation, a group working to remove barriers and bring an end to children experiencing homelessness.
âYouth homelessness doesnât look the same as we might kind of stereotype what homelessness looks like, Schultze said.
Republican
Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert posted video [recently] of signs directing illegal immigrants to a Border Patrol processing facility.
Gohmert mentioned some of the dangers of crossing the river in that area namely snakes and tarantulas and noted that in spite of the risks, large numbers of particularly women and children were crossing anyway.
“Who is putting up the signs pointing to asylum at the U.S. border in Texas and why are they in Homeland Security bags? #BidenBorderCrisis,” Gohmert tweeted along with a video of himself at the border.
Gohmert pointed out a sign that had been placed on a tree near a spot where he said illegal aliens were crossing the river. The sign, he explained, provided directors to a nearby Border Patrol processing center.
Public Pressure Forces Biden to Reverse Plan for More Refugees
16 Apr 2021
President Joe Biden’s team told selected reporters Friday they would not try to rush more refugees into American communities in 2021.
The planned 2021 inflow of 15,000 refugees was set in 2020 by President Donald Trump. Biden’s plan had promised to spike the 2021 inflow up to 62,500.
The
New York Timesreported:
The Biden administration will keep the target of refugee admissions for this year at the historically low level set by the Trump administration, walking back an earlier pledge to welcome more than 60,000 refugees into the United States.
A White House official told the
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Aziz and Sima met near the exquisite tiles and towering minarets of a popular shrine in Tehran. Aziz, a gentle and pensive nineteen-year-old, noticed Sima sitting on a bench, and introduced himself. Sima, he learned, was from the same province in central Afghanistan as he was, and also a Hazara, a historically persecuted ethnic minority. Both of them had fled to Iran as children Aziz because the Taliban had killed his father, Sima because her family had been threatened with similar violence. Every other week for nearly two years, they met at the same bench; a meaningful friendship blossomed into a profound love. Sima, who is a year older, would tell her family that she was seeing relatives. (“If my family knew about this relationship, believe me, I would be beheaded,” she later told me.) In 2017, the couple decided to marry. Aziz’s mother visited Sima’s family to ask for their blessing. They refused. Sima’s parents felt that Aziz, who worked in c