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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There is no way in hell these kids are going to be allowed back here with no one to care for them. This story is a crock.
When you don’t work and protest all day, money can be tight. They save on deodorant and shampoo.
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