Posted on 11/27/2017 2:00:45 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
... When parents are deported, children suffer. This is true for children who remain in the United States, separated from their deported parent(s), and for those who leave the country in order to preserve the family’s unity. Many go back and forth, interrupting their educational progress and the development of social attachments.
Luis Zayas, dean and professor of social work at the University of Texas, Austin, has studied the mental health consequences facing children whose parents have been deported. His research has found that children who remain in the United States after a parent is deported experience “depression, possible conduct disorders, and … a constant sense of a diminishing and ambiguous future” because deportation undermines “children’s fundamental attachments to the adults they rely on for love, guidance, support and care.” In addition, Zayas has found that those who leave their homeland to follow a deported parent display signs of depression and “may lose their sense of national identity as Americans, a poignant loss that even maintaining citizenship cannot prevent.”
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has criticized U.S. immigration policy, concluding that it violates children’s rights to family unity and is inconsistent with protecting the best interests of children. As Congress considers the future of immigration policy, it would do well to focus on the broad population of children and youth whose lives are touched by deportation, and to do a better job of protecting family unity and honoring the best interests of the country’s children.
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Either this or come here legally than you will not have this problem.
I’m so tired of this sob story crap. Children suffer too when a parent is put in jail for a crime so why is deporting a criminal any different.
Exactly. They are such great kids why don’t they send them back to fix their own hellhole of a country???? They NEED good people and healthy families to create a civil, livable country.
My family have little dreamers and they are putting them into debt for 100,000 dollars. Really evil, system which is enslaving our own citizens so they can be slaves for life for the system and corporations.
Illegal children’s rights, illegal parents rights, where the hell are my rights as a true American citizen? These mentally ill social workers professors of social justice and liberal progressive politicians are killing this country bit by bit
Perfect answer. If anyone has to suffer, let it be the crimmigrants and their offspring rather than Americans.
Children always suffer for the actions of their parents.
Whether it be a parent being sent to jail for a criminal conviction or a tenant parent being evicted from an apartment, the law makes the children also suffer. That has always been and will continue to be, until/unless socialists have their way and confiscate children at birth to be raises by the state.
Why should the children of illegal aliens be treated as privileged and not suffer for the actions of their parents.
That makes sense to me. The children are hurt either way. So better to send them along with the parents.
Children always suffer from the bad decisions of parents. This is not new or unique to illegal immigrant.
So fricking what? I care not a whit.
The child and the parent should not benefit from breaking the law.
To pretend otherwise is to invite a new, more violent, revolution.
Stupid parents; why don’t they keep the family together, taking their spouse and children with them?
so???
The children shouldn’t be allowed to stay without their parents.
American children suffer when our own government extorts earned money from their parents and hands it over to illegal aliens in the form of welfare, food stamps, housing free or subsidized health care, free schooling and college and other taxpayer paid assistance.
American children suffer when their schools prioritize the school curricula to accommodate non-English speaking illegal aliens.
American children suffer when employers hire illegal aliens instead of American citizens.
Well then it’s Meh-Hee-Co’s fault for being such a sucky country for them.
If only the parents had considered what would happen to their children when they got caught none of this would happen!
WE ALL suffer when Illegals stay!
Children always suffer when their parents get caught doing illegal things.....blame is on the parents who do the deeds.
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