Deporting Parents Hurts Kids

The U.S. government has set deportation records in the Obama years. including record-setting deportations of parents of U.S. citizen children. Professors HIROKAZU YOSHIKAWA and CAROLA SUÁREZ-OROZCO remind us of what should be obvious — that “Deporting Parents Hurts Kids.” The U.S. citizen children face one of two difficult options — separation from their parents or leaving the United States with their deported parents.

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