A coronavirus outbreak has sickened at least 37 children at a Chicago shelter for unaccompanied and undocumented immigrant youth.
At least 19 immigrant children at Heartland Alliance have tested positive for COVID-19.has sickened at least 37 children at a Chicago shelter for unaccompanied and undocumented immigrant youth, and officials there said Thursday that they've been scrambling to test all the children in their care and to isolate those who are positive for the virus.
"The reality for most of these children is that there is a way for them to be released to relatives here in the U.S. and that's what the government should be doing right away," Mony Ruiz-Velasco with the West Suburban Action Project, an Illinois community-based social justice organization, toldAbout 2,400 unaccompanied minors are being held in shelters nationwide and most were detained at the U.S.-Mexico border and placed in the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement.
However, the agency did not address what it is doing to reunite the children with family in the United States. But officials said that"out of an abundance of caution," it has stopped placing unaccompanied children in virus hotspots such as California, New York and Washington. In this Feb. 1, 2019, file photo, a child watches as a U.S. Border Patrol agent searches a fellow Central American immigrant after they crossed the border from Mexico, in El Paso, Texas.
The agency said it has been closely following local, state and federal safety guidelines, including taking daily temperatures of staff and clients, frequent hand-washing and social distancing.
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