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And What About the Immigrant Children?

07:51 H | Topics: Children - Immigration

There is so much talk about immigration reform. Shut down the borders. Build a bigger fence. Create an amnesty program. Create a visiting worker program. Kick em all the hell out. But very little attention has been paid to immigrant children (unless right wingers are complianing about how much is costs to educate them). Immigrant children fall into one of two catagories. They are immigrants themselves or they belong to mixed status families, meaning they were born in the U.S. to immigrant parents, who often lack legal status. The children in mixed status families are the ones most often at risk for poverty and all that comes with it (poor health, poor education, poor nutrition). And fpr those who say the immigrants are lazy, sucking up the resources of the U.S. :

According to a report by the National Center for Children in Poverty, 97 percent of children with foreign-born parents have a parent who works and 72 percent have a parent who works full-time, year round.

What happens when and if there are mass deportations, to the children who are legally citizens and legally have rights? Are people hoping Angelina Jolie will adopt them?

Via / TomPaine.com

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