More than 70 migrant kids who were separated from their parents at the border are being housed in New York state \u2014 at facilities in\u2026<\/b>
\nMore than 70 migrant kids who were separated from their parents at the border are being housed in New York state \u2014 at facilities in the Bronx, Long Island, and in Westchester and Ulster counties, Gov. Cuomo said Tuesday.
\u201cWe have about 10 facilities in this state. We haven\u2019t spoken with all of them. We know there are over 70 children, just by the ones that we have talked about but they are in Dobbs Ferry, Lincolndale, Irvington, three in the Bronx, one in Syosset and one in Kingston,\u201d Cuomo told reporters in a conference call Tuesday where he said he plans to sue the federal government over its treatment of the kids.
\u201cSince the zero tolerance policy has been put in place, these children have been sent to these facilities under the federal government\u2019s UAC program, unaccompanied alien child \u2014 except they\u2019re not unaccompanied alien children. They were accompanied.\u201d
The Trump administration\u2019s new \u201czero tolerance\u201d policy is to criminally prosecute every adult who crosses the border illegally \u2014 resulting in their kids being separated and put into government care.
There are eight boys and girls aged 6 to 12 being held in Syosett, Long Island, under the care of Catholic care agency MercyFirst, according to Newsday .
The children are from Central America, and are staying at one of MercyFirst\u2019s group homes and attending school with the organization, its president told the newspaper.
They\u2019re suffering from the separation, he said.
\u201cKids are very resilient but it doesn\u2019t take much for a kid to start crying and miss his mom,\u201d McCaffery told Newsday.<\/p>\n

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