When he landed in March, he was among the last refugee foster children to make it into the U.S. Trump administration travel bans declared to block terrorists also are halting a small, three-decade-old program bringing orphan refugee children to waiting foster families in the United States. By blocking the program, the U.S. travel bans have stranded more than 100 refugee children who were already matched to waiting American foster families. Since the 1980s, the program for orphaned refugee children has brought in more than 6,000 refugee children, including 203 last year. That requirement shuts out the refugee children in the foster program, who have no relatives they can turn to anywhere. In her home in another Detroit suburb, Sharon Martin, 64, has bought a crib for the young refugee family from Myanmar.

Source: Ethiopian News July 30, 2017 14:56 UTC