No agenda from this racist organization...
Posted on 10/31/2007 11:35:00 AM PDT by SmithL
Grand Island, Neb. (AP) -- Thousands of children whose parents are arrested in immigration raids in the U.S. face mental health issues including post-traumatic stress disorder, separation anxiety and depression, according to a new study released Wednesday by the Urban Institute.
A child is left without at least one parent for every two adults detained in workplace raids, the study said, and most of those children are citizens or legal immigrants.
"Those children were born in America, and we forgot about their rights during the raids, because they were left parentless," said Steve Joel, superintendent of Grand Island Public Schools, which encouraged parents to keep their children in school following a December raid at the Swift & Co. meatpacking plant.
The study was commissioned by The National Council of La Raza, a Washington-based Hispanic civil rights organization.
Researchers visited Grand Island and Greeley, Colorado, two of six sites where Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents conducted raids at Swift & Co. meatpacking plants that resulted in about 1,300 arrests. The immigrants arrested were mostly from Mexico and Guatemala.
Researchers also visited New Bedford, Massachusetts, where more than 360 workers were arrested at Michael Bianco Inc., a factory that makes equipment and apparel for the U.S. military.
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More liberal spin to stop enforcing the law!!!!
No agenda from this racist organization...
Mexican psychologists can handle it, I'm sure.
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Sounds like Joel and the owners of the Swift& Co. plant should be thrown in the slammer.
What’s wrong with illegals? Why are they putting their children at risk? Unfit parents...
I am getting sick of the whining. Illegal aliens and immigrants who commit crimes or come here for welfare need to be deported.
So much for the relevance of that study. How much importance can one give to a report produced by anybody's Race Based Council?
Children of lawbreakers are harmed by the actions of the lawbreakers.
I have a lot of sympathy for illegal immigrant children who have spent most of their lives in the United States. I have even more sympathy for American chldren born to illegal immigrant parents. But when you get to the bottom rung of accountability and responsibility, you're right. "Children of lawbreakers are harmed by the actions of the lawbreakers."
Boo-effing-hoo. Pass the the world’s smallest violin and I’ll attempt to give a flying rat’s. I expect that if the laws in this country are ever enforced, we’ll have a ship load of these sob stories by the MSM. If we “gringos” were the illegal invaders in Mexico and got raided and deported, I seriously doubt MeHICO would give a damn about splitting up families, the kids or any pets the kids would have.
Cry me a river. The parents ought to have thought about how their illegal actions would affect their kids...same applies to any crimminal. One shouldn’t get a lighter sentence b/c one happens to have children....
Wonder when they will do a study on American kids who are affected when their American parents lose their jobs, livelihoods, and even their lives, to illegal aliens.
La Raza (The Race) would never do a study like that
Thousands of children whose parents are arrested in immigration raids in the U.S. face mental health issues including post-traumatic stress disorder, separation anxiety and depression, according to a new study released Wednesday by the Urban Institute.
A child is left without at least one parent for every two adults detained in workplace raids, the study said, and most of those children are citizens or legal immigrants.
"Those children were born in America, and we forgot about their rights during the raids, because they were left parentless," said Steve Joel, superintendent of Grand Island Public Schools, which encouraged parents to keep their children in school following a December raid at the Swift & Co. meatpacking plant.
American born children are seperated all time from their Amercian born parents when mom and/or dad breaks the law. Get over it.
Sorry, but even breaking out my nanotech violin would be more effort than this “story” deserves.
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