If the parents are deported back to Mexico, the reason the teenage children should not go with them is because the teenagers have not known Mexico as a home?
That's ridiculous. Children belong with their parents. If the parents move somewhere, they should take the children with them, even if the children are teenagers.
What do people like this writer say to military families? Children of military families have to move all the time to whatever new place the father is transferred.
I've never read an editorial lamenting how heartless it is for our military to force teenage children of military personnel to have to move to a new home they've never known before when the father receives new orders.
Maybe when Rico Perry is president he will institute a new policy that no military personnel who have teenage children can be transferred because only a person with no heart would force those teenagers to move.
Also, I assume that when the parents originally came HERE that they similarly were going to a place unfamiliar as “home” to them.
These kids STILL have a big advantage over their peers in Mexico when they return, having benefitted from being in America.
I really do not see the heart in favoring people who have shoved their way to the front of the line. We’d never feel empathy for them if they did it at the grocery store or at the DMV. They are making it hard on people who are trying to immigrate here LEGALLY.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for posting this! My grandchildren are forced to move every three years when my Marine son-in-law gets new orders. So far it's been Camp Pendleton, Guam, the Pentagon, Okinawa, back to California at MCRD-San Diego, now they're in Germany at European Command. Some places they've loved (SoCal and Germany), some not so great (Guam, Okinawa). My daughter and four grandsons are troupers - they make the best of it. )
SIL will be getting new orders in June of '12. My hubby and I are praying that they'll be back in Southern California. It's a lot easier to drive down there than it is to fly overseas to see them.
Excellent point about the teenage children of military parents!