Thread: A Society That Doesn't Believe In The Family

A Society That Doesn't Believe In The Family

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by Juan Martinez
11-22-2011 | 9:43am

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"Shattered Families," a new report from the Applied Research Center on the status of U.S.-born children whose parents have been detained or deported by U.S. immigration agents, found that there are more than 5,000 American children who are in foster care and are unable to be reunited with their detained or deported parents.

Of course, this figure does not include children who have been left in the custody of relatives because their parents have been deported or detained by U.S. authorities. This situation has become increasingly problematic as the U.S. government has increased the number of deportations and detentions to record-breaking levels.

These children are U.S. citizens, so they cannot be deported. And yet the system is practically turning them into orphans.

The report, released on Nov. 3, also found that:

If nothing changes, 15,000 more children may face a similar fate in the next 5 years.

This is a growing national problem, not one confined to border jurisdictions or states-- ARC identified at least 22 states where these cases have emerged.

Families are more likely to be separated where local police aggressively participate in immigration enforcement.

Immigrant victims of domestic violence are at particular risk of losing their children

ICE detention obstructs participation in Child Protective Services' plans for family unity.

Most child welfare departments lack systemic policies to keep families united when parents are detained or deported.

An often used anti-immigrant argument says that the U.S.-born children of undocumented immigrants are “anchor babies," little more than attempts by their parents to guarantee their premanent stay in the United States. However, the “anchorsâ€

These people are not forced into leaving their children, they chose to leave their children.

Many, that are here now having children here that produce family income through welfare, abandoned children in their home countries. .