No Child Left Behind? Over 100,000 Deportees had U.S. Citizen Children

The de facto deportation of U.S. citizen children when there parents are deported from thd United States has long been a problem, and troubled federal judges like Ninth Circuit Judge Harry Pregerson.  And some families are split up to deportations of immigrant parents with citizen children left behind in the United States.  These problems appear to be sizeable.  The Associated Press reports that “[m]ore than 100,000 parents whose children are U.S. citizens were deported over the decade that ended in 2007, a Department of Homeland Security’s investigation has found.” The number of U.S. children affected are unknown.  Here is the report.

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