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Thread: Separating children from parents on Obama's watch - the evidence

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    Default Separating children from parents on Obama's watch - the evidence



    YOU WERE SILENT WHILE I TORE FAMILIES APART, WEREN'T YOU, JPP LIBS?


    An unprecedented increase in the deportation of undocumented immigrants left an estimated 5,100 children languishing in U.S. foster homes — a troubling figure, according to a report from a New York-based advocacy group.

    The “Shattered Families” report from the Applied Research Center, which the activist group says is the first to analyze national data related to the separation of families involved in deportations, offers a look at the human dimension of the highly contentious immigration debate.

    The Obama administration deported 46,000 parents of children who are U.S. citizens in the first six months of 2011, the ARC report says.

    Government data shows a total of 397,000 expulsions in fiscal year 2011, with half involving people with criminal records.

    “This means that almost one in four people deported is the parent of a United States citizen child,” said Seth Freed Wessler, the report’s chief investigator and author. “ARC’s research has uncovered a troubling collateral effect of these deportations: Thousands of children enter the child welfare system and are often stuck there.”

    Ross Feinstein, a spokesman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said “Our agency does work with individuals in removal proceedings to ensure they have ample opportunity to make important decisions regarding the care and custody of their children,” Feinstein said. “Furthermore, as outlined in the agency’s June 2010 Civil Enforcement Priorities memo, ICE will typically not detain individuals who are the primary caretakers of children, unless they are legally subject to mandatory detention based on the severity of their criminal history or their risk of flight.”

    But once separated, the “Shattered Families” report says, the children face enormous obstacles to rejoining their parents, even though child welfare agencies are required by federal law to reunify them with parents who are able to care for them. Because child welfare authorities lack formal policies for dealing with deported parents, the report says, children often fall through the cracks.

    After parents are deported, the researchers found that families remain separated for long periods, with child welfare agencies and juvenile courts often moving to terminate the parental rights of deported immigrants. Children who don’t have other immediate family are then put up for adoption.

    “One of the most common responses from the hundreds of caseworkers and child welfare attorneys that we interviewed all over the country was something like, ‘When a parent is detained or deported, they basically fall off the face of the earth when it comes to the child welfare system,’” Wessler said.

    The researchers concluded that controversial federal programs such as Secure Communities, which allows federal authorities to screen fingerprints of those arrested by local police in order to detect undocumented immigrants, had turned parts of the country into “deportation hot spots” where families were being torn apart. Critics have said that Secure Communities nets large numbers of noncriminal undocumented immigrants and takes the focus away from violent offenders.

    “When we violate that commitment to keeping families together, when we take kids away from loving families, the result not only runs counter to the values that Americans place on families themselves,” said ARC President Rinku Sen. “It also starts to look a little too much like abduction to be tolerable.”


    https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/02/deportation-immigrant-children-foster-care_n_1072553.html

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    Default Evidence that liberals will find it easy to ignore but hard to deny



    YOU LOOKED THE OTHER WAY WHEN I TORE BABIES FROM THEIR MOTHER'S ARMS, DIDN'T YOU, JPP LIBS?


    Alexis Molina was just 10 years old when his mother was abruptly cut out of his life and his childhood unraveled overnight. “She went for her papers,” he says. “And she never came back.”

    Alexis’ father, Rony Molina, a landscaper, was born in Guatemala but lived here for 12 years and is an American citizen. Alexis and his 8-year-old brother, Steve, were Americans, too. So was their 19-year-old stepsister, Evelin. But their mother, Sandra, who lived here illegally, was deported to Guatemala in 2010.

    “How can my country not allow a mother to be with her children, especially when they are so young and they need her?” Rony Molina asks. “And especially when they are Americans?”

    Record number of American children are being left without a parent — despite President Barack Obama’s promise .

    Nearly 45,000 such parents were removed in the first six months of 2012, said the federal department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

    At least 5,100 U.S. citizen children in 22 states lived in foster care, according to an estimate by the Applied Research Center, a New York-based advocacy organization, which first reported on such cases in 2011.

    And an unknown number of those children were put up for adoption against the wishes of their parents, who, once deported, are often helpless to fight when a U.S. judge decides that their children are better off here.

    “I had no idea what was happening,” says Janna Hakim of the morning in 2010 when a loud knocking at her Brooklyn apartment door jolted her awake. It was the first Friday of Ramadan. Her Palestinian mother, Faten, was in the kitchen baking the pastries she sold to local stores.

    Janna, then 16, and her siblings were all born here. None knew that their mother was in the U.S. illegally — or that a deportation order from years earlier meant she could be whisked away by ICE agents. “I am not a criminal. I am the mother of American children, and they need me, especially the younger ones,” she cried over the phone from Ramallah, where she is living with her own mother after 20 years away. “How can a country break up families like this?”

    “When nursing mothers are torn from their babies, when children come home from school to find their parents missing, when all this is happening, the system just isn’t working, and we need to change it,” Obama said during his first run for president in 2008.



    https://www.denverpost.com/2012/08/25/u-s-immigration-policy-splits-families-when-parents-are-deported/

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    Default Liberals can hide from the truth, but they can't outrun it



    YOU SAID NOTHING WHILE HE RIPPED FAMILIES ASUNDER, DID YOU, JPP LIBS?


    When immigration agents raided a poultry processing plant, they had no idea a little American boy named Carlos would be swept up in the operation.

    One of the 136 illegal immigrants detained in the raid was Carlos’s mother, Encarnación Bail Romero, a Guatemalan. After she went to jail, a court terminated Ms. Bail’s rights to her child on grounds of abandonment. Carlos, now 2, was adopted by a local couple.

    In his decree, Judge David C. Dally said the couple made a comfortable living, had rearranged their lives and work schedules to provide Carlos a stable home, and had support from their extended family. By contrast, Judge Dally said, Ms. Bail had little to offer.

    “The only certainties in the biological mother’s future,” he wrote, “is that she will remain incarcerated until next year, and that she will be deported thereafter.”

    Advocates for immigrants say that cases like his are popping up across the country as crackdowns against illegal immigrants thrust courts into transnational custody battles and leave thousands of children in limbo.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/23/us/23children.html

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    I am sorry, but I won't take the word of a right wing mouthpiece like Huffington Post. It is a known racist rag that hates Obama.


    Try again

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    Quote Originally Posted by I Love America View Post
    I am sorry, but I won't take the word of a right wing mouthpiece like Huffington Post. It is a known racist rag that hates Obama.


    Try again

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    Default DEMOCRATS don't want to believe Obama tore families apart, but it's true



    Guillermo Campos-Ojeda says goodbye to his wife and daughter before boarding a deportation flight on May 25, 2010


    Here is a brief list of things the Obama administration did:

    • Arrested tens of thousands of undocumented parents whose kids were US citizens, causing them to lose contact with their children.
    • “Disappeared” those parents in the immigration enforcement system, where they were nigh-on impossible to track down, before deporting them to countries they hadn’t lived in for as long as decades.
    • Orphaned thousands of kids who were left without a legal guardian when their parents were shunted to another country.
    • Sent the parents of those kids to places where there was more than a good chance they’d be kidnapped, tortured, sexually assaulted, killed, or sometimes all of the above.
    • Traumatized both the kids left behind and the kids whose parents were undocumented but not yet arrested, which saw those kids develop symptoms of PTSD, stress-based health problems, and night terrors.



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    https://jacobinmag.com/2018/05/trump-obama-child-deportations-ice-immigration

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    Default On Obama's watch, a mother was separated from her kids

    Nina Rabin, an associate clinical professor of law at the University of Arizona, says one of the most unsettling experiences of her life was witnessing the “cruel and nightmarish destruction” of one Mexican family whom she represented in a fruitless attempt to keep a mother and her children together.

    The mother, Amelia Reyes-Jimenez, carried her blind and paralyzed baby boy, Cesar, across the Mexican border in 1995 seeking better medical care, Rabin said. She settled in Phoenix, illegally, and had three more children, all American citizens. She was arrested after her disabled teen son was found home alone.

    Locked in detention, clueless as to her rights or what was happening to her children, she pleaded guilty to child-endangerment charges, and then spent over a year fighting to stay with her children.

    Twice her attorneys tried to convince an immigration judge that she qualified for a visa “on account of the harm that would be done to her three U.S. citizen children if she were to be deported,” Rabin said.

    She lost and was deported back to Mexico in 2010.

    Last year, her parental rights were terminated by an Arizona court after a judge ruled that she had failed to make progress toward reunification with her children — something Rabin said was impossible to do, locked away for months without access to legal counsel or notifications from the child welfare agency.

    Her case went before the Arizona State Court of Appeals, but Rabin says that family had been destroyed. “Tragically, we heard of cases like this every day,” Rabin said.

    https://www.denverpost.com/2012/08/25/u-s-immigration-policy-splits-families-when-parents-are-deported/

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    Default Obama ripped children from their mothers; did JPP libs start even 1 thread?


    Separated: Deported mothers and their children



    When Montserrat hugged her daughters goodbye on the Mexicali border in 2013, Carolina, then aged nine, slipped this note into her mother's purse.
    It says: 'Mummy, if you are reading this, it means I am going to miss you very much.
    I want to cry. I am going to miss you so much. I love you. You are a beautiful person and the best thing in this world. Don't ever forget me or my sister. Yes, I am little bit sad.'

    https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2016/10/separated-deported-mothers-american-children-161028110139078.html

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    Quote Originally Posted by Legion View Post


    Guillermo Campos-Ojeda says goodbye to his wife and daughter before boarding a deportation flight on May 25, 2010


    Here is a brief list of things the Obama administration did:

    • Arrested tens of thousands of undocumented parents whose kids were US citizens, causing them to lose contact with their children.
    • “Disappeared” those parents in the immigration enforcement system, where they were nigh-on impossible to track down, before deporting them to countries they hadn’t lived in for as long as decades.
    • Orphaned thousands of kids who were left without a legal guardian when their parents were shunted to another country.
    • Sent the parents of those kids to places where there was more than a good chance they’d be kidnapped, tortured, sexually assaulted, killed, or sometimes all of the above.
    • Traumatized both the kids left behind and the kids whose parents were undocumented but not yet arrested, which saw those kids develop symptoms of PTSD, stress-based health problems, and night terrors.



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    https://jacobinmag.com/2018/05/trump-obama-child-deportations-ice-immigration
    To be fair to Obama, the only people tearing families apart, are the parents of these families trying to enter this country illegally. This is a perfect example. The only one to blame in this case, is Mr. Campos-Ojeda.
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    Quote Originally Posted by countryboy View Post
    To be fair to Obama, the only people tearing families apart, are the parents of these families trying to enter this country illegally. This is a perfect example. The only one to blame in this case, is Mr. Campos-Ojeda.
    Good point, yet JPP liberals don't seem willing to extend that same fairness to the the incumbent POTUS, do they?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Legion View Post
    Good point, yet JPP liberals don't seem willing to extend that same fairness to the the incumbent POTUS, do they?
    Lol, you said "liberals", and, "fairness" in the same sentence. Good one.
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    Quote Originally Posted by countryboy View Post
    Lol, you said "liberals", and, "fairness" in the same sentence. Good one.
    I'm quite a comedian sometimes, but liberal hypocrisy is no laughing matter.

    • Today JPP liberals feign outrage about separating mothers from their kids.
    • The evidence shows that Obama was president when these incidents occurred.


    Where was their outrage then?

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    Default January 8, 2015 - Obama is POTUS; liberals on JPP are silent about his deeds



    Mario Aguilar shows photos of his four sons. Aguilar had been living in the United States for 28 years before he was separated from them by Obama


    January 8, 2015

    President Barack Obama did not address existing border removal policies that punish and provide no relief to families that have already been separated by his harsh and overly inclusive deportation policies.

    Beginning in 2008, Obama deported more than two million non-citizens. The Obama Administration classified a number of these deportations as “border removals,” a category that appeared to comprise anyone removed after apprehension by US Customs and Border Protection (CBP), including the Border Patrol, despite a person’s previous ties to the United States.

    Human Rights Watch documented the harms caused by the Obama administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement on people seeking to join their children or other loved ones.

    Human Rights Watch estimated that more than 101,900 of these migrants – about 15 percent – were parents of a US citizen child. Collectively, these migrants are the parents of more than 202,000 American children.

    This rate applies only to apprehensions at the border during fiscal years 2011 and 2012.

    Few parents of US citizen children apprehended at the border were processed for deportation by CBP in a way that allowed them the chance to explain their case to an immigration judge. Sixty percent of parents with US citizen children apprehended at the border were processed under two summary procedures – expedited removal and reinstatement of removal – that allowed them no opportunity to make claims.

    Expedited removal allows for the summary expulsion of non-citizens who have not been admitted or paroled into the US, who have been in the US for less than two years, and who present fraudulent documents or have no documents.

    Twenty percent of those apprehended parents – the parents of 36,000 US citizen children – were processed for deportation using expedited removal in fiscal years 2011 and 2012.

    Migrants, including parents, processed under expedited removal may be deported immediately, have no right to see an immigration judge unless they present a credible fear of returning to their country of origin, and upon deportation will be barred from returning legally to the US for at least five years, and often much longer.

    https://www.hrw.org/news/2015/01/08/border-enforcement-policies-ensnare-parents-us-citizen-children

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