In US, undocumented immigrants are losing their children due to their immigration status. There are almost 5000 children are living in foster homes after deportation of their legal parents by the state agencies.
Every year, a large number of families, in thousands, are fighting with deportations. Although, US President Barack Obama has reiterated time and again of removing only those with criminal records, but still, the practice of removal of parents from the US is going on unabated.
As a result, families are being ruined as a large number of US born children are being left alone without either both of their parents or one parent.
This thing is emerging in which some state departments of social services are taking U.S. born children from undocumented immigrant parents and placing them in foster care.
Once children are separated from their immigrant parents, it can be difficult for those parents to get their children back. They may not be able to pursue a custody case before removal from the United States, especially if parents are detained in a different state.
According to the ARC report, the government deported more than 46,000 parents of children with U.S. citizenship in the first half of 2011. The report also has identified at least 22 states where these cases have emerged in the last two years.
Jailed or deported parents are not allowed to meet with their children, and parents held in immigration detention centers are penalized for being unable to attend hearings in family court. They are also penalized for not meeting court-ordered requirements for regaining custody of their children. The requirements are impossible to meet from jail.
Detained parents often aren't aware that they can request that their children be returned upon deportation, placed with relatives in the United States, or allowed to return to their home countries. Parents unable to speak, read or write English, let alone understand complicated legal rulings, are often uninformed of their legal rights or where their children have been sent. They often don't have lawyers to help navigate the child welfare system.
Children in foster care are often not placed with relatives unless the relatives become legal citizens. Child-welfare workers do not allow undocumented relatives to take care of the children in foster care because their status in the United States is unstable and they can also be detained or deported at any time.
Detention can have a devastating impact on families, especially if immigrant parents are separated from their children.
Every year, a large number of families, in thousands, are fighting with deportations. Although, US President Barack Obama has reiterated time and again of removing only those with criminal records, but still, the practice of removal of parents from the US is going on unabated.
As a result, families are being ruined as a large number of US born children are being left alone without either both of their parents or one parent.
This thing is emerging in which some state departments of social services are taking U.S. born children from undocumented immigrant parents and placing them in foster care.
Once children are separated from their immigrant parents, it can be difficult for those parents to get their children back. They may not be able to pursue a custody case before removal from the United States, especially if parents are detained in a different state.
According to the ARC report, the government deported more than 46,000 parents of children with U.S. citizenship in the first half of 2011. The report also has identified at least 22 states where these cases have emerged in the last two years.
Jailed or deported parents are not allowed to meet with their children, and parents held in immigration detention centers are penalized for being unable to attend hearings in family court. They are also penalized for not meeting court-ordered requirements for regaining custody of their children. The requirements are impossible to meet from jail.
Detained parents often aren't aware that they can request that their children be returned upon deportation, placed with relatives in the United States, or allowed to return to their home countries. Parents unable to speak, read or write English, let alone understand complicated legal rulings, are often uninformed of their legal rights or where their children have been sent. They often don't have lawyers to help navigate the child welfare system.
Children in foster care are often not placed with relatives unless the relatives become legal citizens. Child-welfare workers do not allow undocumented relatives to take care of the children in foster care because their status in the United States is unstable and they can also be detained or deported at any time.
Detention can have a devastating impact on families, especially if immigrant parents are separated from their children.
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