In addition, Shannon is the Lead Pharmacist for the Massachusetts 1 Disaster Medical Assistance Team and has deployed twelve times, including responses to major hurricanes, the Haitian earthquake and the Unaccompanied Minor Border Crossing mission.
Though the IOM's chief of mission, Denis Nihill, says unaccompanied minors move to IOM-funded community housing when they reach 18, immigration red tape slows the process considerably, meaning many can be left in the lurch.
Unaccompanied minors, too, are suffering.
Unaccompanied melody contains its own accompaniment.
"Unaccompanied" concludes with a poem titled "June 10 , 1999.
Unaccompanied (Copper Canyon Press, 2017) is his first collection.
Unaccompanied youth flee their counties of origin to escape extreme violence and reunite with family.
During RRM missions UNICEF identifies children who are unaccompanied or have become separated from their families in the chaos of their escape.
Another volunteer, Zoe Gilchrist of the Aid Delivery Mission, is helping compile a census of how many unaccompanied minors there might be in and around Idomeni.
"It is ORR's responsibility to provide a solution to the violent and sexual victimization of LGBT youth, in accordance with its mission to provide a high quality of care to unaccompanied immigrant children in federal custody, therefore enabling them to succeed upon discharge," the letter reads.
Speaking to Breitbart News during a medical mission in Guatemala, Paul lent his backing to House Republican efforts to address the crisis of unaccompanied minors crossing the southern U.S. border.
