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Visibly affected and on the verge of tears, Leyden Rovelo spoke about the suffering of tens of thousands of recently arrived immigrant children in the United States during her talk Sept. 9 at the 2024 International Eucharistic Congress in Quito, Ecuador.
Rovelo referenced official reports that indicate that federal agencies such as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services have failed to account for between 30,000 and 85,000 of these minors.
“They don’t know where our children are,” she said.
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Rovelo referenced official reports that indicate that federal agencies such as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services have failed to account for between 30,000 and 85,000 of these minors.
“They don’t know where our children are,” she said.
The Catholic Church and the migration drama
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Eucharistic Congress spotlights travails of child migrant U.S. trek
The suffering of tens of thousands of recently arrived migrant children in the U.S. was addressed during a talk this week at the International Eucharistic Congress.
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