Girl Scouts quietly welcome hundreds of young migrant girls
"If it has to do with young girls in New York City, then it's not political," said Meridith Maskara, CEO of the Girl Scouts of Greater New York.
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"If it has to do with young girls in New York City, then it's not political," said Meridith Maskara, CEO of the Girl Scouts of Greater New York.
His trip south of the border comes amid a recent increase in asylum seekers of more than 4,000 per week.
Hizzoner is going to Mexico, and parts of Central America and South America on his own dime.
Hizzoner plans to explain to people hoping to come to New York City that there are other places in the U.S. they can and should go to instead. CBS New York's Ali Bauman reports.
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Congressmen Steve Israel and Peter King and Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano were notified Friday that the Department of Health and Human Services is no longer considering the former Grumman warehouse, which is near a Superfund site.
The federal government is looking at a former defense plant site in Bethpage to possibly house thousands of unaccompanied children from Central America.