Immigration Policy Resource of Note re Impact on Children

Severing a Lifeline: The Neglect of Citizen Children in America's Immigration Enforcement Policy March 20, 2009 From the law firm of Dorsey and Whitney, LLP. "Increased interior immigration enforcement action by ICE, in the form of high profile worksite raids and home raids, has resulted in the arrest, detention and deportation of record numbers of undocumented immigrants over the past several years. In the process, tens of thousands of children of undocumented immigrants, including citizen children, have seen their families torn apart, or experienced the effective deportation of the entire family to countries as foreign to them as they are to other American children. The harm threatened or visited upon the citizen child in these circumstances is palpable and long-lasting." (Thanks to colleague Scott P for calling my attention to this report. lfr).

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