Tag: immigrant children of the detained
By Jeralyn, Section Civil Liberties
Posted on Thu Apr 23, 2009 at 07:14:00 AM EST
Tags: immigrant children of the detained (all tags)
Posted on Thu Apr 23, 2009 at 07:14:00 AM EST
Tags: immigrant children of the detained (all tags)
What happens to the children of the undocumented arrested in workplace immigration raids like the one in Carthage, MO?
The New York Times reports they are being given away to foster families.
One of the 136 illegal immigrants detained in the raid was Carlos’s mother, Encarnación Bail Romero, a Guatemalan. A year and a half after she went to jail, a county court terminated Ms. Bail’s rights to her child on grounds of abandonment. Carlos, now 2, was adopted by a local couple.
Truly a depressing story. [More...]
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