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Elvira Arrellano Reuinted With U.S. Citizen Son in Mexico

By immigrationprof

AP reports that the 8-year-old son of deported immigrant activist Elvira Arellano was reunited with her Friday in Mexico City.  Arellano said she wants her son, Saul, a U.S. citizen, to go to school in her home state of Michoacan so he can learn Spanish.

The Arrellano case now falls into the more common pattern of U.S. citizen children who are effectively deported because their parents are deported.  I am not sure precisely how many citizen children are deported in this way but it is common enough to have led to articles by law professors Bill Piatt, Edith Friedler, and others.

KJ