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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The key word here is ILLEGAL.
If you are here in any way illegally, then you should have to leave.
It’s shameful for parents to put their children under this cloud of doom as criminals, just so their greedy parents can make money here illegally.
They stay?!?
No, no, no, they need to go, with their parents. All of them together. Our immigration needs are more than met for many years to come.
Immigration hiatus time please.
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