"Where is the anger and outrage at the system for those who face it every day of their lives?

I'm sorry if I didn't make it clearer, Ron, but that was precisely what I have been on about in my posts which evidently so annoyed you.

"this affects not only these two girls but any child going through the system."

And that is exactly the point. It's not a matter of harsh treatment being handed out to visitors because they are foreign, and I don't think anyone has suggested it was. What appears to have happened is that this family, through no fault of their own, found itself relying on on the system which existed to meet the needs of New York's poorest and most vulnerable citizens. And it just didn't measure up.

Incidentally it appears that this wasn't a case of the Brays getting into difficulties because they hadn't got insurance or something like that - they had insurance which was supposed to cover medical emergencies and so forth. Maybe there was some small print...