US foster care system already stretched to the max as unaccompanied minors continue to cross southern border
Evie Fordham
After being stretched by the coronavirus pandemic, the U.S. foster care system has another challenge ahead: an unprecedented number of unaccompanied migrant children coming over the southern border who need care before they can be placed with relatives already living in the U.S.
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) projected in April that as many as 184,000 unaccompanied children could reach the border in the fiscal year 2021. There are an estimated 420,000 children in U.S. foster care.
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"We tried to figure out the pandemic, how to handle it. Now we’re trying to figure out this mass influx of children that are unaccompanied," Irene Clements, executive director of the National Foster Parent Association, told Fox News in an interview. "It's pretty much nationwide there's a lack of foster families to meet the needs, especially during COVID."
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