SAN DIEGO SHELTER ENDS AID FOR UNRULY GROUP OF KIDS.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. An emergency shelter Emergency shelters are places for people to live temporarily when they can't live in their previous residence, similar to homeless shelters. The main difference is that an emergency shelter typically specializes in people fleeing a specific type of situation, such as battered for abused and neglected kids has stopped admitting a group of aggressive Mexican street children sneaking across the border in order to receive free care. Since Aug. 1, the Polinsky Children's Center has been turning over a group of 30 street children to the U.S. Border Patrol's custody until staff members from the Mexican consulate can return them to Tijuana. Some of the children had bought instructions on how to sneak over the U.S.-Mexico border and how to behave so that police would pick them up and deliver them to the shelter, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a July 9 letter from county Social Services social services Noun, pl welfare services provided by local authorities or a state agency for people with particular social needs social services npl → servicios mpl sociales Director Cecil Steppe steppe (stĕp), temperate grassland of Eurasia, consisting of level, generally treeless plains. It extends over the lower regions of the Danube and in a broad belt over S and SE European and Central Asian Russia, stretching E to the Altai and S to to U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno Janet Reno (born July 21, 1938) was the first and to date only female Attorney General of the United States (1993–2001). She was nominated by President Bill Clinton on February 11, 1993, and confirmed on March 11. . ``They deliberately cross the border with the intention of coming to the Polinsky Children's Center to receive clothing, food, shelter as well as to engage in thuggery,'' the letter also said. The group of 30 youths who are 13 years or younger, have been identified through photographs, according to U.S. Border Patrol spokesman Marco Ramirez. They often committed minor crimes so they could be detained. Officials at the Polinsky center said the group of children had become aggressive toward the staff and other children. The 130-bed facility received about 16 of these youths per month during a 13-month period beginning May 1995, county officials said. The daily cost of providing services to a child at the center is $200. Steppe said the center would continue to receive undocumented children who had become separated from their families when crossing the border, or youngsters who had been abandoned or abused. |
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