U.S. Deported 90,000 Mexican Children

“In the first seven months of 2008 at least 90,000 Mexican children have been deported by the US government in its anti-immigrant policy, with the consequent separation of thousands of families.” This statement from the PRI party’s workgroup on immigration matters in the Mexican Chamber of Deputies (US equiv: House of Representatives) estimates that 15% of those children (13,500) live on the Mexican side near the border “without any government protection.” The coordinator of the partisan workgroup said that during the same period, 300,000 adults have been deported back to Mexico. The document also charges that besides the abandonment of thousands of children on the Mexican side of the border, it is estimated that for every three adults deported, they leave “a helpless Mexican infant” behind in the US.


“The children are left in the charge of human smugglers to bring them to the US with their parents and in that intent they are deposited and practically abandoned on the Mexican border since their family, for fear of deportation, does not reclaim them,” he said. [Note: We can't figure this one out either.]


The coordinator continues that just in seven months, the 90,000 children born in Mexico, but who accompanied their parents in search of better opportunities in the US, have been expelled by the US government as a consequence of massive deportations. He points out that, of the estimated 13,500 children “parked” along the northern border of Mexico, some stay in government or church provided shelters but others remain abandoned and turn to begging in order to survive and try to return to the US.


The OEM newspaper La Voz de la Frontera (Mexicali, Baja California) adds to their copy of this story, “There is disdain by the US for these children and there doesn’t exist a program of support for them on the part of the Mexican government.”