If you want to fix foster care, here's where to start
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Fixing our "broken" immigration system would help fix our "broken" foster-care system. In both cases, the health and welfare of children should be paramount.
Megan Rose is founder and CEO of Better Together, a Florida-based nonprofit that supports struggling parents by helping them work to build a better life, keep children out of foster care, and ultimately reunite families.
Most voters – on both sides of the aisle – understand the need for immigration reform. And nearly all, I believe, want a humane solution to an issue that so clearly affects families fleeing poverty and political instability outside our borders.
But what most Americans don’t understand is the pressure this influx of immigrant minors puts on our already overburdened foster-care system.