March 28, 2025
The mental health needs of unaccompanied minors are severely impacted upon resettlement in the U.S.... They’ve dreamed of being in the U.S. for the ability to go to college, the ability to send money back home, but once they arrive here, there’s a different reality and they realize that they have to go to work immediately.
— Kristina Lovato, Associate Professor and director of the Center on Immigration and Child Welfare, quoted in KQED, "Soaring Housing Costs Make Life Even More Challenging for Oakland’s Unaccompanied Minors".
KQED