Editor’s note: It has been one of those days and many potential posts were not posted. Thanks to all who have sent story ideas, hopefully tomorrow will be a better day.
In our earlier post this morning we reported that Obama was awarding millions of dollars to refugee contractors to hire lawyers for some of the “children” who broke into America over the summer. A reader alerts us to the latest numbers (as of August 31) by state of where the Office of Refugee Resettlement has sent them.
So, look at this list and remember that the states getting lawyers for illegal alien children are MD/VA, CA, TX, FL, TN, LA, AZ. Why Tennessee and Arizona when there are several states with more illegal alien children?
Update: I didn’t notice originally that you can check out your counties here.
Here is the list (highlighted in red are the top 10 states) from the Office of Refugee Resettlement:
| State | # of Unaccompanied Children |
| Alabama | 634 |
| Alaska |
4
|
| Arizona | 218 |
| Arkansas |
250
|
| California |
4,680
|
| Colorado |
336
|
| Connecticut |
455
|
| Delaware | 168 |
| District of Columbia |
301
|
| Florida |
4,392
|
| Georgia |
1,623
|
| Hawaii |
8
|
| Idaho | 15 |
| Illinois | 437 |
| Indiana |
357
|
| Iowa |
196
|
| Kansas |
246
|
| Kentucky |
333
|
| Louisiana |
1,414
|
| Maine | 9 |
| Maryland | 3,248 |
| Massachusetts |
1,115
|
| Michigan |
154
|
| Minnesota |
240
|
| Mississippi | 238 |
| Missouri |
173
|
| Montana |
1
|
| Nebraska | 278 |
| Nevada | 188 |
| New Hampshire |
28
|
| New Jersey |
2,171
|
| New Mexico |
32
|
| New York |
4,799
|
| North Carolina | 1,648 |
| North Dakota | 4 |
| Ohio |
489
|
| Oklahoma |
284
|
| Oregon |
96
|
| Pennsylvania |
513
|
| Puerto Rico |
1
|
| Rhode Island |
173
|
| South Carolina |
491
|
| South Dakota |
31
|
| Tennessee |
1,020
|
| Texas |
6,217
|
| Utah |
103
|
| Vermont | 3 |
| Virgin Islands | 1 |
| Virginia |
3,193
|
| Washington |
310
|
| West Virginia | 20 |
| Wisconsin |
73
|
| Wyoming |
8
|
| Total |
43,419
|
All of our posts on ‘Unaccompanied minors’ are here.