'I Know That They're Cared For." Why One Mom Has Chosen To Foster Migrant Children
Unaccompanied minors cross the border without family or support. "Any kid that's in my house is, at least while they're here, safe," says one foster mother, Christi.
by Lulu Garcia-Navarro
Jul 28, 2019
2 minutes
On a hot Maryland summer day, two toddlers play in the wading area of a community pool. Their glee is uncontainable as they dump water-filled plastic pails over each other's heads. A few weeks earlier, these little ones would not come close to the water.
"When they both came, they were terrified of the pool," says their foster mother Christi. "Terrified. And now we kind of have to
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