Deport 4-year-old citizens? New guidelines, now
Hello,
I am writing out of deep concern over what happened to four-year-old Emily Samantha Ruiz, who was wrongly shipped off to Guatemala despite being a US citizen. In addition to immediately reuniting her with her parents in Brentwood, NY, I urge you to launch a thorough investigation into this incident and establish clear guidelines to prevent this from ever happening again.
Emily is far from the only U.S. citizen child at risk of this kind of separation from her family. Nearly 4 million citizen children have at least one undocumented parent, according to the Pew Hispanic Center, and unless new guidelines are put into place, there is nothing to prevent US Customs and Border Patrol from reenacting this deplorable situation.
Again, I urge you immediately reunite Emily and her family, and I ask that you establish clear guidelines so that parents and their US citizen children will never be put in this terrible situation again.
[Your name]
The only reason anyone thinks these children are US citizens is because of the foolishness of the Wong Kim Ark decision, and subsequent repetitions of this fallacy.