A day with the Danson family would sound familiar to most Americans. Karla, an accounting clerk, leaves the house at dawn to drop her two teenagers at school, while her husband, Chris, a utility inspector, races home at 4:30 to bring them to their evening soccer practice. Later in the evening, the couple makes sure the boys are fed and have their homework done, trading off the dreaded math help.
But this family is a little different. Karla and Chris — fresh from practice raising four teenagers of their own — have become foster parents to two teenagers from Central America who crossed the border on their like thousands of other ‘unaccompanied minors.’ These boys arrived just over two years ago, but since the time of their crossing the numbers of youth arriving at the border looking for a place to call home has increased rapidly, peaking at over 10,000 this past June.
While the numbers of unsupervised youth crossing the border from Mexico and Central America has begun to wane in recent weeks, the challenges faced by those awaiting their fates in holding facilities along the border are still very real.
[For more of this story, written by Anna Goren, go to http://www.seattleglobalist.co...rs-immigration/29335]
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