OCEANSIDE(USA): Danielle Grijalva, Director Committee for Safety of Foreign Exchange Students, Oceanside, California has issued an alert for students coming to USA from various countries.

"Twenty-five teenagers from Lebanon, Ganza, Ukraine, Jordan, Algeria, Yemen, Kuwait, Muldova and Ukraine are without homes. 

The students are here through the YES/FLEX program, wherein the student exchange agency Pacific Intercultural Exchange (PIE) was awarded millions of tax payer grants to invite these teenagers to the United States.  PIE failed to secure host families and schools and have left these children stranded and confused. 
 
By entering this program, these foreign teens thought the United States Department of State was taking care of them.   
 
Assistant Secretary of State Dina Habib Powell of the Department of State (    202-203-5118) was specifically hired and entrusted by President Bush to improve Middle East relations with this program.  She speaks fluent Arabic and understands the culture. 
 
CSFES has been contacted by the natural fathers of some of these students who don't know how or why they cannot contact their children.
 
If these children are sent back to their home countries, will PIE keep the tax payer funds that they did not earn?  
 
CSFES has filed a complaint against Pacific Intercultural Exchange with Mr. Stanley Colvin of the Department of State (   202-203-7415).
 
Pacific Intercultural Exchange, 8880 Rio San Diego, Suite 1045, San Diego, CA  92108.  Telephone:  888-743-8721 or 619-238-6767."
 
Respectfully,
 
Danielle Grijalva, Director
www.csfes.org / 760-414-1314