Saturday, December 31, 2011

Children ask US govt to stop deporting undocumented immigrants

A while back I was asked if my kids would participate in this: (click on the link to read the article)

Children ask US govt to stop deporting undocumented immigrants

If you did not click on the link here's a small piece of the article:
As Christmas draws near, thousands of children in the United States wrote to the US government last week to stop separating families by deporting and detaining undocumented immigrants...
In a study done by the US-based Applied Research Center (APC), at least 5,1000 children in foster care are barred “from uniting with their detained or deported parents.”

Sadly, I was not able to get my kids to write a letter in time for them to be sent to me and then to the facilitator.

Something truly needs to be done to address the problems with immigration. It affects everyone, but it affects the children the worst. At this moment there are families that are separated. Either one parent is detained or actually deported. Sadly, there are cases of both parents becoming detained and deported.  That statistic from the APC is startling.  And it should not be.

My family is affected by the indecision of our government in regards to immigration. At this point, we don't know if my husband will be banned from the US for a limited amount of time or for life. If we are told he is banned for life, then he will do what I do not want him to do- cross over illegally to be with his family.

What makes me sad and upset about this whole "controversy" over "illegal" immigration is how the majority of the opposers think that ALL undocumented immigrants are criminals. I do not believe that is right. A criminal is someone who does something illegal such as selling drugs, theft, or even murder. Granted, there is a high number of undocumented immigrants that have committed any number of those crimes, BUT that is not ALL of the undocumented immigrants. It PISSES me off that opposers ASSUME that ALL undocumented immigrants are that way.  And then it PISSES me off that these opposers just cannot see the impact the STUPID laws in states like Arizona are affecting the FAMILIES of the undocumented immigrants.

What sort of message is this behavior sending to our children? They are our future. The impact of our future is so sad. Please think about this before you say anything negative about immigration: the article I posted states this about how our children are affected by this:  Meanwhile, four researchers from two prestigious universities in New York disclosed last September that these immigration issues affect the children’s social development in a “uniformly negative” way. ...the study said more than five million children in the US are “at risk of lower educational performance, economic stagnation, blocked mobility, and ambiguous belonging” when they are raised in immigrant families with illegal status. 

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