OPINION:
President Trump should consider using AmeriCorps workers on the border with Mexico to facilitate the care and treatment of children separated from their families. AmeriCorps has more than 75,000 Americans engaged in intensive public service at 21,600 sites that include non-profits, schools, public agencies and community- and faith-based groups across the country.
AmeriCorps workers could assist in the oral history of each child and the need for services required to return that child to the family or certify the need for the child to stay in the U.S. under guardianship of an adopted family, if necessary.
The current wave of protests by concerned citizens offers little in the way of remediation and resolution of the problem for children separated from their families by immigration officials.
SELBY PARKER SR.
Clinton, Miss.
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