Quoted: In the Obama Administration, time in O.R.R. care was approximately a month, on average. We worried a lot about variations of a few days. There have been reports that stays are closer to two months now,” Maria Cancian, who between 2015 and 2016 served as H.H.S.’s Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy in the Administration for Children and Families, told me. Such delays inevitably lead to overcrowding and a lack of space. Often, the O.R.R. prefers to send children, particularly young ones, into foster care, so that the child can benefit from a stable family setting while waiting for placement with a more permanent guardian. But many such programs are currently overextended.
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