What will become of the refugee orphans? Will they find homes in the U.S.?

[daninthemoon]

Is there any kind of organization setup to arrange this, on either temporary or permanent situation? Surely this would be a good thing.

[LakeSamish706]

1. I hope that this becomes a world responsibility as opposed to the good old US...

My hope is that these people are given as much as they need to get back to some sort of normal existence. Not sure if that will occur in their own country or being adopted into other countries. The entire world needs to step up in many of these situations, instead of leaving every thing to the US to make right. I think that many countries will do exactly that.

[FreeJG]

2. don't count on it...they will be trafficked....many of them. turn them into a commodity.

Don't forget Dyn-Corp A Go Go.

The children sold in Bosnia. We set up the "orphanages" before we bomb countries. Then we take the children. Don't forget DynCorp.


here is a good source:

DynCorp whistleblower revealed alleged sex-slave trade among ... Now there's this case involving DynCorp, as reported by CorpWatch. ... DynCorp, a U.S. contracting company doing business in Bosnia. ... Johnston witnessed coworkers and supervisors literally buying and selling women for their own personal enjoyment, .... And although I do not believe in sex with children either, ...
http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=1W1ADSA_en&q=dyncorp+selling+children+in+bosnia&aq=f&oq=&aqi=

[noamnety]

3. Well intentioned but not the best course of action

Dating back to the tsunami:

The United Nations estimates the Dec. 26, 2004, tsunami has left more than five million people homeless, including about 1.5 million children, most of whom may be orphaned. Since the disaster, adoption agencies around the world have been fielding phone calls from well-meaning families wanting to adopt a child from one of the countries hit.

Adoption experts say the best thing people can do is to donate money to causes that directly help the children. They say it's wrong to take a traumatized child away from the environment that they have grown up in.

"Adoptions, especially inter-country ones, are inappropriate during the emergency phase as children are better placed being cared for by their wider families and the communities they know," said the charity Save the Children in a statement released Jan. 6, 2005.

"The last thing they need to do is be rushed away to some foreign land," said Cory Barron of Children's Hope International, an American adoption agency. "We have to think of the child first."
USCIS believes that it will take many months before the countries affected by the disaster will be able to identify the children who are actual orphans. It is only if and when these countries decide to make these orphans available for international adoption that American citizens will be able to begin adoption proceedings for those children who also qualify as orphans as defined in the Immigration and Nationality Act.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/asia_earthquake/tsunami-orphans.html