Posted on 05/20/2007 8:34:16 AM PDT by truthkeeper
Deportation Laws May Tear Parents, Their Kids Apart
The Associated Press
CANCITA, Mexico - Since they joined their deported parents in Mexico, 7-year-old Adriana has stopped screaming "Papa!" in her sleep, and 10-year-old Yadira's asthma has eased. Pedro, 15, doesn't break into tears anymore, and Adrian, 12, thinks of his new life as an adventure.
For now, these American children are trying to ignore the wrenching decision they have to make by the end of summer: Stay with their parents in this bone-dry village where they bathe in a canal and use an outhouse, or return alone to some of America's best schools in Palo Alto, Calif.
Tens of thousands of families are facing similar choices, and even more soon could if Congress goes ahead with an overhaul of U.S. immigration laws.
About 3 million U.S.-born children have a parent who is living illegally in America, according to the Pew Hispanic Center, and since 2004 the government has been deporting illegal immigrants at a record rate.
The Senate is expected to begin debate Monday on a sweeping bill that would provide a pathway to citizenship for an estimated 12million illegal immigrants in the U.S. The bill would limit the importance of family ties, capping visas for parents of U.S. citizens at 40,000 a year and changing a preference system that for four decades has favored such ties.
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Exactly!!
Send some birth control pills down Mexico way then they won’t have this problem..
All of you, get the hell back to Mexico and STAY THERE. That way you can all be together.
Crime doesn’t pay. Follow the law and there will never be a victim.
At this point I just want a wall, cessation of bennies and perqs, and no more anchor baby provision. Nothing else!
Boy, Rush Limbaugh sure does have these people pegged.
He did predict this...how it would presented in this way to water it down even more, and how the media would be a willing accomplice.
And I thought my problems were difficult. I ran out of tissues on this one. Oh the humanity!
When you don't deport ANY for twenty years, and then you suddenly deport ONE, that's a record.
Boo-hoo
Nonsense. The kids can go with their parents. This is the kind bleeding heart story were get from the MSM designed to make us feel guilty.
You are 100% correct in your tidal wave approach. The message and repercussions must be felt like NEVER before.
Every single damn day until this bastard bill’s life is ended.
I’ve hunted EVERYWHERE for that graphic. Thanks!
Here's a pic of Julie Watson (left):
Get your “Secure Our Borders” Bumper sticker and other liberal annoyances as this site.
Ok. Palo Alto is one of the most expensive areas in California. How is it that these illegals and their children were able to live there and go to the schools there? Perhaps a live-in couple for the rich?
Well,in light of the Senate bill this week,unless the House steps up to the plate and blocks it (and that’s a long shot),this thread will be completely irrelevant !!!
Sounds like a Human Rights violation to me...
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