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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: FJB who wrote (173938)	10/20/2014 10:21:40 AM
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PAPER: Illegal children guaranteed second helpings at meals... By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times - Sunday, October 19, 2014 Want to bid for a contract to care for the illegal immigrant children coming across the border? Make sure your staff members get Hepatitis vaccines and regular TB tests and can speak foreign languages — probably Spanish but maybe Mandarin, suggesting a surprising number of the children are coming from China. The federal government guarantees the children three meals a day, and they must take account of health, religious observance or vegetarian diets. The children also have a right to second helpings, according to contract documents issued last month seeking a transportation company to ferry the children within Texas. Even though the surge of unaccompanied children has slowed, the government is still issuing multimillion-dollar contracts to provide care, transportation, translation and other services for the 66,000 who got through the border over the past year and the thousands still entering the country each month. ... Overall, the contract speaks to the tenuous balance between social worker and corrections officer that those dealing with the surge of children must strike. The children are not in criminal proceedings but are still sometimes security risks. Because they are not entitled to be in the U.S., there is always the danger of flight. Cont...