Federal Agencies Seek Workers for Humanitarian Relief at Border

Federal agencies are asking their workers to volunteer to assist in humanitarian relief efforts at the U.S.-Mexico border as a surge of migrants, many of them children, overwhelm U.S. personnel there.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s Chair Charlotte Burrows asked the civil rights agency’s employees to apply for deployment in 30- to 120-day stints, as part of an initiative spearheaded by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement, according to a communiqué obtained by Bloomberg Law.

“These children are alone, frightened, separated from family, and currently being housed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in ...