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HHS ends $11M contract with Catholic Charities to care for migrant children
The cut follows a drop to 1,900 children in federal care, officials said, and could force the long-running shelter program to close within 3 months.
- The Trump administration canceled an $11 million contract with Catholic Charities in Miami, abruptly ending a 60-year partnership providing housing and care for unaccompanied migrant children.
- Initiated during 1959's Operation Pedro Pan, the partnership began airlifting children of Cuban dissidents to Miami after Fidel Castro rose to power in Cuba, later expanding to include families seeking better lives.
- Archbishop Thomas Wenski noted that services for unaccompanied minors have been stripped of funding, forcing closure of the 81-bed Bryan Walsh Children within three months.
- Robert Latham of the Miami Law School warned that relocating children is "incredibly psychologically harmful," though The Department of Health and Human Services cited significantly lower caseloads under Trump than Biden.
- This decision occurs amid heightened tensions between President Donald Trump and Pope Leo XIV, who recently criticized U.S. policy on Iran, prompting Trump to call the Pope "weak.
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Photo by Christian Harb on UnsplashIn the midst of an ongoing slap-fight with Pope Leo XIV, Donald Trump has abruptly killed off an $11 million contract with Catholic Charities USA in Miami, Florida, to house and care for immigrant children who have come here on their own. The non-profit has long had a contract with the Office of Refugee Resettlement to find foster homes and forever homes for these children, apart from the state’s foster program…
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