Report from racial justice think-tank says, often thousands of American children are seen living in foster care across the nation, especially after the upswing of immigrants in 2011. Some of these children never get a chance to reunite with their families again.
In the first half of 2011 alone, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported about 46,000 immigrants who have American children – some just a few months old – leaving about 5,000 kids to pine away in foster care while parents try in vain to get them back.
When parents are arrested, often for minor offenses and as children cannot be removed from their homes, child welfare agencies despise to release kids to other family members who are also illegal immigrants. As a result, children are forced into foster care, when they could be placed with their own families.According to the study found American kids in 22 states whose parents had been deported or detained and as child welfare agencies don’t have effective communication channels with ICE, social workers have a hard time finding the parents. Often the parents’ names disappear from jail rosters with no notice to social workers, who then have no contact information for the parents. Then the parents are left with a choice – accept deportation and face years of fighting for custody from outside the U.S., or stay in detention to fight deportation, which can also take years.
In addition to destroying families, separating parents and children which costs like anything, when parents are detained and kids sent to foster care, the NGO’s are spending money that could be used to enrich families instead.
The local law enforcement officers—often call ICE agents to deal with suspected illegal immigrants—to think twice before they simply turn over suspected illegal immigrants, as these kids will face the ripple effects, and this is destroying their families,”
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