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brooklynite

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Mon Apr 12, 2021, 07:38 AM Apr 2021

Federal Government asking staffers to go help at the border.

WASHINGTON — The desperate plea landed this week in the email inboxes of employees in government agencies like the Department of Homeland Security and NASA: Will you consider taking a four-month paid leave from your job to help care for migrant children in government-run shelters packed with new arrivals at the border?

The request to much of the federal work force came from the Department of Health and Human Services, which is at the heart of a frantic effort by the Biden administration to keep up with a surge in young people crossing the southwestern border hoping to reunite with relatives already in the United States.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/10/us/politics/biden-immigration.html


My wife at Treasury did not get this request.
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Federal Government asking staffers to go help at the border. (Original Post) brooklynite Apr 2021 OP
id take that one up in a heartbeat. 3Hotdogs Apr 2021 #1
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