Mexico: UN, foundation launch foster care for migrant kids in Mexico (Includes video)
Associated Press – November 26, 2021
The U.N. Commission on Refugees and a private foundation announced a sort of foster-care program Friday to place about 120 unaccompanied minor migrants with Mexican families for up to two years. Foster families of the type known in the United States don’t generally exist in Mexico; adoption laws are extremely strict and children in shelters or orphanages are almost always placed with relatives. Mexico has seen refugee and asylum applications shoot up this year to over 108,000; about 18,000 are children and around 1,000 were not accompanied by a relative.
https://apnews.com/article/mexico-united-nations-child-welfare-orphans-3f5f65c5476d039c25a9ba8a8129f283