How immigration enforcement impacts children & families

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

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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.

[MasterGunner01]

OK, can some of the rocket scientist writers and editors at the Tucson Sentinel explain to me: What part of ILLEGAL alien don’t you understand? These people are in our country ILLEGALLY. I really don’t give a damn about their kids. Deport the illegal parents AND their kids. Spare me all this PC, bleeding heart drivel.

[raybbr]

Another liberal/progressive "professor" masquerading as a journalist:

Sociology Department

Joanna Dreby

Assistant Professor

Expertise: Immigration, Families, Children

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