Thread: Report Claims Harm to 'Citizen Children' of Detained IA's

Report Reveals Harm to ‘Citizen Children’ of Illegal Aliens Detained by ICE

Tuesday, March 24, 2009
By Penny Starr, Senior Staff Writer


Doris Meissner, who served as the Commissioner of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service under the Bill Clinton Administration, said Congress should pass the Dream Act allowing children who are in the U.S. illegally to attend college and earn citizenship. (CNSNews.com/Penny Starr)


(CNSNews.com) – A panel of pro-immigrant experts and activists unveiled a report on Monday that said workplace and home raids by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency had harmed “hundreds of thousandsâ€

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They should be deported with their parents as a family unit and allowed to return when they are 21 and can live here on their own. And we need to change public policy on this issue and ensure that at least 1 parent is is a US citizen or legal permanent resident, subject to US jurisdiction, as the US constitution always required.

[quote]“With deportations numbering more than 1.9 million in this decade, it is safe to conclude that hundreds of thousands of citizen children have suffered the loss of one of more parents or effective deportation to a foreign land, as a consequence of enforcement over the past several years,â€