Longtime Renton foster parents were told to move to make room for unaccompanied youth from across the border.

Longtime Renton foster parents were told to move to make room for unaccompanied youth from across the border.

A plan to house migrant children from the surging crisis at the US-Mexico border will leave a Renton foster family with no place to call home.

Edmundo Serena Sanchez said he and his wife were notified in February that they would have to vacate the Renton house where they have nurtured and raised Washington state foster children for nearly seven years.

DeAnn Adams, chief program officer for Friends of Youth, told KING 5 the organization saw a new funding source with the federal government's Office of Refugee Resettlement and decided to use the Howard's House - where Serena Sanchez and his foster family now live - as housing for undocumented immigrant children.

Serena Sanchez said the decision had a devastating impact on the four children in his foster care who will likely be required to move to new foster homes.

Serena Sanchez said he and his wife will be able to find a place to live, but he likely can't afford a house to offer a home to foster children.

Serena Sanchez said he's astonished that the Friends of Youth would remove Washington children who are making strides in a stable foster home and replace them with children from the border.

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