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Immigration Law Causes Problems for Children
A new report by concerned activists has found that the rise in deportations of illegal migrants in the US has left thousands of children in foster care.
A rising tide of migrant deportations last year has caused a swell in the number of children living in United States (US) foster care systems.

About half of the 10.2 million undocumented workers living in the US have young children, said the Pew Hispanic Center in a report last month.

Now, according to a new report by the Applied Research Center, entitled Shattered Families: The Perilous Intersection of Immigration Enforcement and the Child Welfare System, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deported 46,000 immigrants, leaving 5,000 children in foster care.

Authorities, says the group, often arrest the parents for minor crimes because they are undocumented. In the report, readers can find examples of how this might happen:

In the late summer of 2010, a team of federal immigration agents arrived at the front door of Clara and Josefinas trailer home in New Mexico. [ICE] had received a false tip that the sisters, who were undocumented immigrants, had drugs in their home. Though they found nothing incriminating in the trailer and the sisters had no criminal record, ICE called Child Protective Services (CPS) to take custody of the children and ICE detained the sisters because of their immigration status.

Some of these children without parental care will never reunite with their families, said Laurie Melrood at a press conference yesterday. Ms. Melrood is a Tucson-based activist as well as a private consultant.

These innocent children become an unplanned expense to extended family, the community, and our overburdened state foster care system, when their parents are detained and deported, she told local media.

She and her colleagues are also helping communities become aware of the immigration policy tools that will help them reunite with their children.

The ICE, meanwhile, has not been silent on the issue. ICE works with individuals in removal proceedings to ensure they have ample opportunity to make important decisions regarding the care and custody of their children, wrote spokesperson Amber Cargile in an email to the Arizona Daily Star.

The ICE doesnt usually detain childrens guardians unless it is necessary because of criminal or immigration history. Usually, child welfare authorizes will seize a child from custody when there are concerns for the childs wellbeing. Sole guardianship is already considered as one of the humanitarian reasons in releasing people, Ms. Cargile noted. Cases where the sole caregiver is detained are rare, she added.

While their parents are undocumented, many affected children are US citizens. Other children left their countries of origin when they were very young. Now, they have few cultural or linguistic ties to those countries.

While parents try to get their children back, some are not reunited. Parents are then left with a decision between a rock and a hard place. They can accept deportation and fight for custody from within their country of origin, or stay in detention to fight the deportation. Both processes can take years.

The issue is currently affected about 22 states. According to Seth Freed Wessler of the Applied Research Center, it is estimated that another 15,000 children will enter the foster care system because of deportation over the next five years.

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