“If the illegal alien parents are deported, they can either take the children with them, or give custody to another Yellow Card AID card already here.”
No! No way, keep families together. If one or both parents are deported, the family must be kept together. Children go with the family.
Here’s why: the huge psychological blow of separation from parents is equivalent to essentially being abandonned.
My nephew’s parents split, and the boy came to live with his grandparents and myself. The trauma was horrendous, the psychological toll very high, resulting in 9-years of psychotherapy. And the amazing part is he knew us thoroughly and had lived with us off and on for the first seven years of his life.
Believe me, it is best in the long run to keep families together.
The usual choice will be to stay with the parents, but I could see a poor Irish or Bolivian or Serbian family deciding to abandon their child to Social Services rather than bringing the child back home.