Dozens of child migrants reunited with families after being housed at local facility

EMSWORTH, Pa. — A Catholic non-profit organization taking care of children separated from their families at the border says they've been reunited with their families.

In an exclusive interview with Channel 11, Holy Family Institute CEO Sister Linda Yankoski sat down to discuss the issue.

“We're known to the government as being able to provide good care for very young children," Yankoski said. "So we started to do that for the government and we continue to do that today.”

That relationship started after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti that devastated and left hundreds of children homeless.

Yankoski said they were already under contract with the federal government to take care of children in need when the President Trump's zero tolerance policy went into effect.

It was eventually reversed.

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“It's not as if we supported that policy. But we knew there were children in need of care and that we had available placements and beds and staff members who could care for them,” Yankoski said.

“We were just as concerned as many of the people here in the community were concerned that children could actually be torn apart from their families.”

Yankoski says she's hopeful the extra attention will show how Holy Family Institute lives up to its mission to care for children.

“The children stayed with us until we could find their parents or really determine they were free for adoption.”

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