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SF Board of Supervisors Restores Due Process for Undocumented Youth

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Concentration camps

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There are 5 million children who could be potentially orphaned by ICE deportations

Cristina in her show on Univision tonite featured the stories of several children who have been left orphaned in the United States due to the deportation of their parents. On Cristina's website she reports, based on ICE estimates, that 5 million children, United States citizens by birth, live with their illegal alien parents. On her show she focused on several cases of children whose parents were taken from their homes and the children were forced to be placed in the hands of family relatives or friends because ICE, according to the children, wouldn't allow the parents to take the children with them, because they were "United States Citizens".

The US Immigration newsletter says different....http://www.usimmigrationsupport.org/newsletter/2006/dec_15.html

They claim that the government does not make the decision for the parents, they claim that the decision is the parent's decision. One thing they do make clear to the parents, they say, is that if the children are left behind without being left in the care of responsible adults, they will be handed over to Child Protective Services and they will end up in the Foster Care System.

Another troubling consequence, besides the suffering of the children left behind in the United States, is the growing anger and hatred they feel towards American Authority figures for having their parents, sometimes violently, ripped away from the children's lives.

Watching the show is a very emotional experience. To look into the eyes of these children is so heartbreaking. Several parents interviewed by Cristina reported that they were not given the option of taking their children with them, while others talked about another unique situation. Families where one parent has a work visa, the other parent doesn't, and they have one child who was born outside of the country while they have two children born inside of the country.

In a case recently in Yakima, Washington, three children were orphaned by a domestic violence incident that left both their illegal alien parents dead in a murder suicide. The children were taken in by their illegal alien aunt who legally adopted them in American courts. She was being deported but the five children, two of hers, and the three of her sisters, were not named in the deportation order. According to the article in the New York times, "Here in Eastern Washington, where the number of illegal immigrants is high, Gonzalez's almost certain deportation would hardly be worthy of note. But because of the children, her case has ensnarled government agencies in ways such cases seldom do, with state and Yakima County juvenile-court officials advocating that the family be allowed to stay, while immigration authorities move toward deportation."

What do you think should happen to the children? Should they be deported with their parents? What if they are American Citizens, should the ICE be deporting American Citizens because of their parent's illegal status? Recently, a class-action lawsuit against the U.S. government was filed by 60 American children whose parents face deportation. Their argument is that such deportation violates certain amendments of the U.S. Constitution.Cristina in her show on Univision tonite featured the stories of several children who... more