'Using children as pawns': Ron DeSantis issues 'emergency rule' targeting asylum-seeking kids
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Florida’s extremist governor continues to endanger the safety of children in his state, last week issuing a so-called “emergency” rule blocking the license renewals of federally funded facilities where asylum-seeking children in Health and Hum'Using children as pawns': Ron DeSantis issues 'emergency rule' targeting asylum-seeking kids
Florida’s extremist governor continues to endanger the safety of children in his state, last week issuing a so-called “emergency” rule blocking the license renewals of federally funded facilities where asylum-seeking children in Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) custody are held while they wait to be placed with a sponsor. “An unknown number of children in Florida are also housed with foster families as part of the program who are also not being renewed,” ABC Action News said. That report revealed that dozens of children have already been moved from a Lutheran Services facility in Sarasota after its license was not renewed by the state. Florida’s actions have been rebuked by members of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Read more