Unocumented Parents: The Effects Of Deportation On Children

The Effects of Deportation on Children Life is a struggle for U.S. born children who have undocumented parents. The Immigration Law in America is undeniably broken and has emotionally impacted the lives of many Hispanic families, mostly the children. Since the Senate passed the Immigration Reform bill and sent it to the house, more than 75,000 children have had one or both parents deported. According to an estimate by the Pew Hispanic Center, there is an estimate of 5.5 million children with unauthorized parents, three-quarters are of U.S. born citizens. Therefore, the U.S. born children are severely at risk of being separated from their undocumented parent(s). When a U.S. born child’s undocumented parent(s) is deported, he/she is faced with many difficulties and is effected in a numerous of ways. U.S. born children struggle to survive after their parent(s) are deported. Because of the recent intensification of immigration enforcement in America, the children have been put at risk of being separated from their parent(s), economic hardships, and psychological trauma. The children of undocumented immigrants are just as vulnerable to the immigration enforcement. When a parent who is the provider of the household gets deported, the entire family undergoes a traumatic shift, because they are left to struggle through economic hardships, and are impacted emotionally. A study released by the Center for American Progress
Many arrestees signed voluntary departure papers and left the country before they could contact immigration lawyers and their families. Some single parents and other primary caregivers were released late on the same day as the raids, but others were held overnight for several days. Many of the arrested parents were afraid to divulge that had children because they believed that ICE would take their children into custody as well