Thread: ICE Reports Deporting Nearly 47,000 Parents of U.S. Citizen Children

March 30, 2012, 12:15 p.m. EDT

ICE Reports Deporting Nearly 47,000 Parents of U.S. Citizen Children

BALTIMORE, March 30, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- LIRS Troubled by New Report Revealing Deportations Data for First Half of 2011

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the first half of 2011 deported 46,686 parents who had at least one U.S. citizen child, says an ICE report made public on Monday.

"If deportations continued at that rate for the rest of 2011, we can assume that over 100,000 kids who are U.S. citizens saw parents deported," said Stacy Martin, vice president for external relations of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (LIRS).

"LIRS, the national organization established by Lutheran churches in the United States to serve uprooted people, is deeply troubled by this report," said Martin. "It shows that the U.S. immigration system is tearing apart so many families."

"The United States prides itself on being a country that honors and upholds family values, yet the U.S. immigration system is absolutely failing American families," Martin said.

The period covered by the data in the new report by ICE, an agency of the Department of Homeland Security, is January 1, 2011 - June 30, 2011.

In January 2012, the Applied Research Center released "Shattered Families," a report showing that over 5,100 children of immigrants have ended up in foster care because U.S. immigration authorities had either detained or deported their parents. The report also predicted that at least 15,000 more children would end up in foster care over the next five years.

In 2011, ICE issued prosecutorial discretion guidance to U.S. immigration officers and announced a nationwide review of cases pending before immigration courts to determine which cases are considered low-priority for removal. For a parent of a U.S. citizen child to qualify for relief under this guidance, a parent would need to have long-time presence in the United States and have established compelling ties and made compelling contributions to the United States.

"Despite recent efforts to provide more discretion to U.S. immigration officers, our laws and policies are still too rigid," said Eric B. Sigmon, LIRS Director for Advocacy. "U.S. immigration officials should have more flexibility to consider the best interests of children when making decisions about the detention and deportation of parents with children."

About LIRSLIRS is nationally recognized for its leadership advocating on behalf of refugees, asylum seekers, unaccompanied children, immigrants in detention, families fractured by migration and other vulnerable populations, and for providing services to migrants through over 60 grassroots legal and social service partners across the United States.

Press Contact: Jon Pattee, LIRS Assistant Director for Media Relations 202-591-5778, jpattee@lirs.org

SOURCE Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service

ICE Reports Deporting Nearly 47,000 Parents of U.S. Citizen Children - MarketWatch

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the first half of 2011 deported 46,686 parents who had at least one U.S. citizen child, says an ICE report made public on Monday.

In January 2012, the Applied Research Center released "Shattered Families," a report showing that over 5,100 children of immigrants have ended up in foster care

Simple math tells me that over 41,000 have at least 1 parent still here.

One parent can be a citizen, or here legally, and not be deport-able.
That's why the numbers are for 5,100 kids
and 46,686 parents.

Or, the other one just doesn't either get caught or is not deported, usully the mother who has more than one jackpot baby.

It is a sad day when illegal foreign nationals are allowed to come here and turn having children into an industry for welfare money.

If enough parasites attach the host will always die. I saw that happen to a neighbors neglected dog that became infested with ticks. JMO

Is this meant to cause sympathy??? If so, FAIL!..These parents KNEW, Full and Well that they had NO Legal standing in this country and made Personal Choices...American kids have parents in jail, are we all brooding and crying over them? No, so why would the child of an Illegal be any different?

Its all about making GOOD choices over BAD choices.... GOOD=Reward, Bad=Consequenses...There is no other way.

"It shows that the U.S. immigration system is tearing apart so many families."

It shows that we have to stop the anchor baby thing! Hard to feel sympathy for parents who are foolish enough to take the risk of being seperated from their children."

The United States prides itself on being a country that honors and upholds family values, yet the U.S. immigration system is absolutely failing American families," Martin said.
You mean failing illegals. American families don't want law breaking illegals here and want the illegal kids to be deported along with the parents.

"Despite recent efforts to provide more discretion to U.S. immigration officers, our laws and policies are still too rigid," said Eric B. Sigmon, LIRS Director for Advocacy. "U.S. immigration officials should have more flexibility to consider the best interests of children when making decisions about the detention and deportation of parents with children."
The children should never have been born here in the first place. If the parents get deported, the kids should be right beside them. We have to worry about ourselves and our own children and the havok that illegles cause.

The parents apparently care so much for their children that they would rather abandon them to the foster care system than take them home with them.

Why didn't they take their family with them? If they're so concerned about family unity that seems to be the best solution. Oops! That makes sense...I guess I'm probably a racist if I can't let law breakers get away with it.

When illegal alien parents are deported their citizen kids are taken from them and place in foster care or even put up for adoption if there isn't a citizen parent or legal parent to take care of them. Illegal aliens are often NOT permitted to take U.S. Citizens kids with them when they are deported.

EXAMPLE:

http://www.alipac.us/f12/deported-fi...ildren-250983/

RELATED

http://www.alipac.us/f12/children-pa...cement-243686/