More than 4,000 unaccompanied migrant children have moved in with sponsors in Washington, Idaho and Oregon since the start of 2015, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.
Many of them are being settled to await their court proceedings with families in rural parts of the Northwest, and a growing number are coming to stay with families in Eastern Washington.
SPR’s Morning Edition host, Owen Henderson, sat down with reporter Rachel Spacek, who’s been digging into the challenges those kids and their sponsors are facing for the news organization InvestigateWest…