Beth Caldwell is a professor at Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles, where much of her research focuses on juvenile justice. She is a former public defender and advocate for youth.
Posted on 11/27/2017 2:00:45 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
... When parents are deported, children suffer. This is true for children who remain in the United States, separated from their deported parent(s), and for those who leave the country in order to preserve the family’s unity. Many go back and forth, interrupting their educational progress and the development of social attachments.
Luis Zayas, dean and professor of social work at the University of Texas, Austin, has studied the mental health consequences facing children whose parents have been deported. His research has found that children who remain in the United States after a parent is deported experience “depression, possible conduct disorders, and … a constant sense of a diminishing and ambiguous future” because deportation undermines “children’s fundamental attachments to the adults they rely on for love, guidance, support and care.” In addition, Zayas has found that those who leave their homeland to follow a deported parent display signs of depression and “may lose their sense of national identity as Americans, a poignant loss that even maintaining citizenship cannot prevent.”
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has criticized U.S. immigration policy, concluding that it violates children’s rights to family unity and is inconsistent with protecting the best interests of children. As Congress considers the future of immigration policy, it would do well to focus on the broad population of children and youth whose lives are touched by deportation, and to do a better job of protecting family unity and honoring the best interests of the country’s children.
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Beth Caldwell is a professor at Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles, where much of her research focuses on juvenile justice. She is a former public defender and advocate for youth.
Deport the entire family then. Keep them together. ;)
All citizens suffer injury and deprivation when criminal infiltrators and squatters are given harbor by accomplices.
Children of citizens suffer when Illegals stay.
Indeed. Children suffer when parents break the law. That’s been well established.
Illegal aliens and their illegal offspring are special. Not like bank robbers, murders, securities fraudsters, or other criminals who go to prision.
You know what?
Children suffer when deadbeat, abusive, or divorced parents don’t live up to their responsibilities for raising them, too.
Does that mean we force families to stay together — or do we imprison them to protect the children? But.....
Children suffer when scumbag parents go to prison, too.
Does that mean we shouldn’t put anyone in prison?
Guess it depends on what today’s “protected” class is.
Wow, I wonder who should be responsible for thinking ahead about this?
Good reason to stay home and not come over here illegally
Ninnies
If this is so damaging to the children prosecute their parents on child-abuse charges.
children suffer when their family is victim to crime from illegal aliens; and...
children suffer when their culture and language are confiscated by illegal aliens; and...
children suffer when their parents' votes are nullified by votes from illegal aliens.
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The real question is “who/whom made this situation that impacts the children? It is
incumbent upon them to handle the situation as best they can for their spawn.
Dear God. The children suffer when parents bring them here illegally or even legally and when parent breaks law and goes to jail and when parent voluntarily moves back to country of origin.
But America’s kids suffer when having to share multi-lingual schools where learning is compromised and their culture disdained.
The solution is to use every diplomatic and political card to force the governments of the sending countries to remedy the reasons people leave.
We cannot take in the whole world.
I bet any guy that might have a relationship with this loon suffers.
Children also suffer when they are aborted, but I doubt Ms. Caldwell and her ilk are terribly concerned about that.
Oh for God’s sake Caldwell, you twit, stop this ridiculous whining and go find something useful to do.
Who gives a crap? Deport the entire family. Parents are criminals.
Bet dearie.........
It’s ok for children to suffer. It’s called life
How many times has she been Divorced?
How many abortions? (It kills one and affects many)
We were raised not to interfere in other family’s business. The parents have known all along about the risk. They are counting on cowbirds like you to support their invasion.
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