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Raid in Sheriff Joe’s Country Leaves a 9 Year Old Girl Without Parents

10:35 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Family| Immigration| arizona| children · 6 Comments

19 Jun 2009

I cannot wrap my mind around a few things at play here.

One, how anti-immigration activists can dehumanize the children of immigrants and immigrant children to the point that leaving a child without parents is ok. Or that a 9 year old’s murder is ok.

I also cannot understand how President Obama can keep postponing meetings on immigration and legislators drag their feet as if people are not being killed and children aren’t being left as defacto orphans by immigration enforcement.

U.S. Immigration Policy : Women and Children Last

1:19 pm By Maegan La Mala · Immigration| Women| children · Comments Off

18 Nov 2008

When rescuing people from the proverbial sinking ship, it used to be women and children first. Pero, as we struggle to survive in the wounded battleship that is the United States, immigrant women and children are the first to be thrown overboard.

A study released last week by the Center for Public Policy Priorities (CPPP) found that:

…more than 43,000 undocumented, unaccompanied children have been mistreated while in custody and denied access to representation by Customs and Border Protection (Border Patrol) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and then transported home unsafely.

The treatment of children reported is downright criminal and abusive. Pero since they are “illegals”, “aliens” , and potential criminals they don’t deserve basics like water, food, or a blanket to keep warm.

In clear violation of international and U.S. child welfare standards, our interviews with the Mexican and Honduran children uncovered troubling claims of child abuse and maltreatment by U.S. Border Patrol officers, including:
• Inattention to repeated requests for medical attention;
• No access to water while in the border patrol station;
• Having to sleep on the floor without a blanket in a heavily air conditioned cell;
• Not being given any or enough food;
• Not being allowed to contact family;
• Being struck and knocked down by agents;
• Being handcuffed; and
• Being transported “like dogs,” in kennel like compartments.

Thousands of Children Immigrating Alone : Deported Alone

12:41 pm By Maegan La Mala · Immigration| Latin America| US Presidential Race 2008| children| mexico · Comments Off

18 Sep 2008

2008 isn’t over, and already the number of unaccompanied minors crossing the border into the United States has passed the 10,000 mark.

More than 11,700 Mexican children and teenagers tried to cross the US border alone and were sent back to their native country in the first seven months of this year, Mexican migration officials said Wednesday.

Meanwhile ICE raids continue, people are dead, and John McCain and Barack Obama are pointing fingers.

ICE Reaches a New Low : Picking Up Parents Picking Up Their Children

10:06 am By Maegan La Mala · Family| Immigration| children · Comments Off

11 Sep 2008

It’s already glaringly obvious that ICE and the U.S. government, while they can tout mami-values on air, could care less about immigrants and their families. They have already been intimidating parents outside of schools and now they are going to airports, as a sort of welcome to the U.S. committee, ready to round up the undocumented picking up their children from travels abroad.

I just wanted to warn people about something that I learned when meeting with a PC this morning. ICE is apparently now picking up people who go to the airport to pick up children coming from other countries. This PC had sent her U.S. citizen children with a family member out of the country for the summer. The family member had a letter from the mother giving her permission to do so. When the family member returned with the children, CBP asked her about the mother. ICE came to the baggage claim area and arrested the mother. I thought you might want to warn clients about this.

Now people can’t even to meet their children at the airport. Makes me want to send out a whole different kind of warning.

Via / Immigration Prof Blog

Children Choosing Not What Game to Play But If to Go Into Foster Care

1:57 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration| children · Comments Off

13 Jun 2008

An entire generation of children of immigrants, mostly Latino children, are being forced to make a decision if they should go to a country they no nothing of or enter a system that has proven itself a dangerous track for children, the foster care children.

Is this the new tracking system for children of color? How are children expected to learn ABC’s when they have the fear of being separated from their parents? How are children expected to be good citizens of a country that saw their right to grow up in a family as meaningless? What civic lesson is the U.S. government teaching these young people?

Jail for Immgrant Families Ordered to Change

10:41 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration| Justice| Texas| children · Comments Off

30 Aug 2007

Earlier this year I told you all about the inhumane conditions at T. Don Hutto Residential Center in Texas , used to house immigrants being considered for deportation or asylum and their children. Yesterday Federal Judge Sam Sparks, while acknowledging that Hutto wasn’t the best place for immigrant families, it was what it was and at the very least could be improved. The changes ordered ranged from the simple installation of privacy curtains in bathrooms to giving school age children 5 hours of schooling a day (up from one).

Via / Univision.com and Free Speech Radio News

Prison for Immigrant Children

12:48 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration| Justice| Texas| children · 1 Comment

27 Feb 2007

T. Don Hutto Residential Center in Texas “used” to be a prison. But now the Department of Homeland Security is nice enough and is using it to “house” immigrants being considered for deportation or asylum and their children. This includes pregnant women.

…double-layered chain link fence topped with concertina wire in places. Or the uniformed, handcuff-toting correctional officers – called “counselors” – and the tight two-person cells where mothers and children live for weeks or months awaiting their fate.

A prison by any other name is still a prison.

And What About the Immigrant Children?

7:51 am By Maegan La Mala · Immigration| children · 1 Comment

21 Mar 2006

immigrant%20children.jpg 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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