How immigration enforcement impacts children & families

Tucson Sentinel ^ | Aug 20, 2012, | Joanna Dreby

[moonshinner_09]

What happens to children when their parents are deported? How do these deportations, now more numerous than ever, affect families and the communities in which they live? This report (see sidebar) looks at how immigration enforcement shapes family life in the United States, both among immigrant and mixed-status families, and in their wider communities.

Even as the United States has failed to pass comprehensive immigration reform in the past decade, it has increasingly taken a hardline stance on immigration enforcement, particularly in targeting unauthorized immigrants living in the country.

The number of immigrants removed has steadily risen, from close to 190,000 deportations in 2001 to close to 400,000 per year in the past four years. Even more troubling, in the first six months of 2011 alone, more than 46,000 parents of U.S. citizen children were deported.

With more than 11 million unauthorized immigrants living in the country, these deportations affect a wide swath of the population, including the undocumented and the citizen alike. Undocumented immigrants do not live separate and walled-off lives from the documented, but instead live side by side in the same communities and in the same families. A total of 16.6 million people currently live in mixed-status families-with at least one unauthorized immigrant-and a third ofU.S. citizen children of immigrants live in mixed-status families.

[moonshinner_09]

Blame the illegals they created these problems.

[kabar]

more than 46,000 parents of U.S. citizen children were deported.

They can take their children with them. In fact, unless they can find a legal guardian, they must take their minor children with them.

[kabar]

more than 46,000 parents of U.S. citizen children were deported.

They can take their children with them. In fact, unless they can find a legal guardian, they must take their minor children with them.

[Da Coyote]

How about an article on how paying for their schools, their welfare, their medical aid, etc, etc. affects MY children and families?

Oh, by the way, Tucson Sentinal, I plan to visit your facility at a time determined by me. When I arrive, I expect food, clothing, and a place to stay. I may also bring my family, and if I do, make sure that they are also accomodated. After all, you wouldn’t want to negatively influence my calm, would you?

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

What happens to children when their parents are deported?

If they Hadn’t broken the law and the law was being properly enforced it wouldn’t be a problem to begin with deport their asses with their parents if it is such a bad problem then no one is split up .....

[SWAMPSNIPER]

They need to think about this before they jump the border.

[ProudFossil]

Hey Tucson Goody-two-shoes,

What happens to the children of felons when their parent(s) have to go to prison? How does that affect the community and their families?

But I guess you only see problems in relation to illegals even though they are breaking the law.

GET A LIFE, loser MSM.

[muawiyah]

I and my associates are prepared to bring 100,000 or more Indians and Pakistanis into the country who already have their doctorates, and they are ready to work to give value to this country, but first, they will pick apples for upwards of 3 years!

Just give us a chunk of that illegal alien quota and we can do some stuff.

[fireman15]

They come here knowing full well the risks of raising a family while living in the country illegally. The blame for whatever problems that are created when they get caught and deported rests squarely on their own shoulders. I do not believe that the offspring of tow illegal aliens born in this country should automaticaly be considered legal US citizens. I fully support Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who proposed amending the Constitution to make clear that babies born in the U.S. do not automatically receive American citizenship. Creating anchor babies was never the intent of the 14th amendment.

[forgotten man]

What happens to the children of U.S. citizens who are convicted of crimes and sent to prison? I don’t hear anybody crying about what happens to those kids.

[Dallas59]

How the arrests of bank robbers, car thieves, rapists...affect their children...same thing.

[fireman15]

They come here knowing full well the risks of raising a family while living in the country illegally. The blame for whatever problems that are created when they get caught and deported rests squarely on their own shoulders. I do not believe that the offspring of tow illegal aliens born in this country should automaticaly be considered legal US citizens. I fully support Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who proposed amending the Constitution to make clear that babies born in the U.S. do not automatically receive American citizenship. Creating anchor babies was never the intent of the 14th amendment.

[fireman15]

We responded to an apartment fire of some Iranian refugees. A fairly large group was in the complex, some had been political refugees for years. They were jumping through all of the legal hoops that it takes to become a citizen the legal way. Like the Indians and Pakistanis you are trying to help... they were highly educated people who were willing to do whatever was necessary to support themselves. I know that in border states especially, but in many other parts of the country as well illegal immigrants are somehow fleecing the system while those who are trying to come here legally are getting the shaft. And that is the problem the cheaters are winning.

[This I Wonder32460]

There would be less illegal immigration if the U.S. did not steal the citizenship of foreigners’ children by giving them American citizenship. No, the children of foreigners born in American should have the same citizenship as their parents and when born here those children are foreign citizens born abroad in America not American citizens. Just as the children of American citizens’ born abroad are American citizens who were born abroad.

[This I Wonder32460]

Their children should be classified as foreign citizens born abroad in American that way they are not confused about where they belong.

[kabar]

Unfortunately, birthright citizenship is the law of the land. We have 300,000 to 400,000 anchor babies born each year. Most of them receive food stamps, Medicaid, etc.

[Psycho_Bunny]

Joanna can go straight to hell, and take all her little friends with her.

[familyop]

Stop the H1-B and other slavery rackets, and the more legitimate and moral family-related immigration will slow down by itself. It worked in the past. Welcome those who want to be Americans and aren’t coming only for more money.

[Gay State Conservative]

[elteemike]

“Blame the illegals they created the problem...”

You are correct...

What happens to the children of bank robbers?