A Difficult Decision
A recent news article outlined the difficulties facing illegal Mexican parents and their children. As immigration officials are increasing efforts to locate and deport illegal Mexicans (there have been 18,000 men and women deported since last June), families are being torn apart. When a Mexican couple has a child in the United State, the child is automatically a resident and legal. But what happens when the parents are arrested and forced to return to Mexico? They are faced with a difficult decision regarding their children. They can either leave them behind with family or friends or take them back to Mexico. Many parents want their children to have the oportunities available in the United States and thus choose to leave them behind. The children that do go back to Mexico have to enroll in a Mexican school and often do not know how to read or write in Spanish. Deporting the parents and making them choose where their children will go is disrupting families and even tearing them apart. It does not seem right that they are forced to choose between leaving their children or starting a completely new life somewhere else, and in many cases, a place that is very foriegn to the children. Forcing parents to abandon their children is wrong. It is increasingly clear that something must be done to stop this.
Source: SignOnSanDiego.com
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Tough Call « IRregular Blogging said this on April 13, 2007 at 9:15 pm