Parents deported, what happens to US-born kids?
Divided Families
Amelia Reyes-Jimenez rides the bus to work in Zapopan, Mexico, Friday, Aug. 17, 2012. Reyes-Jimenez carried her blind and partly paralyzed baby boy, Cesar, across the Mexican border in 1995 seeking better medical care. She settled in Phoenix illegally and had three more children, all American citizens. In 2008 she was arrested after her disabled teen son was found home alone. Locked up in detention, clueless as to her rights or what was happening to her children, she pleaded guilty to child endangerment charges, and then spent two years trying to fight for her right to stay with her children. She lost and was deported back to Mexico without her children in 2010. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)
Divided Families
Amelia Reyes-Jimenez pauses as she talks about her children to the Associated Press at her sister's home in Zapopan, Mexico, Friday, Aug. 17, 2012. Reyes-Jimenez carried her blind and partly paralyzed baby boy, Cesar, across the Mexican border in 1995 seeking better medical care. She settled in Phoenix illegally and had three more children, all American citizens. In 2008 she was arrested after her disabled teen son was found home alone. Locked up in detention, clueless as to her rights or what was happening to her children, she pleaded guilty to child endangerment charges, and then spent two years trying to fight for her right to stay with her children. She lost and was deported back to Mexico without her children in 2010.(AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)
Divided Families
Amelia Reyes-Jimenez cries as she talks about her children to the Associated Press at her sister's home in Zapopan, Mexico, Friday, Aug. 17, 2012. Reyes-Jimenez, carried her blind and partly paralyzed baby boy, Cesar, across the Mexican border in 1995 seeking better medical care. She settled in Phoenix illegally and had three more children, all American citizens. In 2008 she was arrested after her disabled teen son was found home alone. Locked up in detention, clueless as to her rights or what was happening to her children, she pleaded guilty to child endangerment charges, and then spent two years trying to fight for her right to stay with her children. She lost and was deported back to Mexico without her children in 2010. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)
Divided Families
Amelia Reyes-Jimenez sits on a bed at her sister's home in Zapopan, Mexico, Friday, Aug. 17, 2012. Reyes-Jimenez, carried her blind and partly paralyzed baby boy, Cesar, across the Mexican border in 1995 seeking better medical care. She settled in Phoenix illegally and had three more children, all American citizens. In 2008 she was arrested after her disabled teen son was found home alone. Locked up in detention, clueless as to her rights or what was happening to her children, she pleaded guilty to child endangerment charges, and then spent two years trying to fight for her right to stay with her children. She lost and was deported back to Mexico without her children in 2010. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)
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Jesus Christo de Nogales posted at 2:00 pm on Mon, Sep 17, 2012.
I saw an interesting interview on a Phoenix TV news program shortly after SB1070 was passed and signed by Brewer. The TV reporter was in a Hispanic neighborhood to ask various people about the impact SB1070 will have on their lives. They interviewed a family of illegal Mexican occupiers who had been in the United States for 16 years. She was a stay at home mom and he worked in the landscape business. Together they had 7 children born in Arizona while neither of them had any form of health insurance coverage. They were packing their belongings and heading for Colorado. I still can't figure out how they paid the hospital bills for each of those 7 children born in the Phoenix area. Does anybody have any ideas? Surely they paid their own bills right????
Masterrogue666 posted at 8:25 am on Mon, Sep 17, 2012.
At DavidNichols: What racism? What hate? I possess neither. Care to prove me wrong? I just think that our laws should be RESPECTED, and citizenship EARNED!
Masterrogue666 posted at 8:22 am on Mon, Sep 17, 2012.
"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?"
Easy answer, Rony. Your mother was an ILLEGAL ALIEN, and didn't have THE RIGHT to be here in the first place. If she hadn't been here, you would not be an American citizen. Don't blame the USA for YOUR MOTHER'S DECISION to IGNORE OUR LAWS. Imagine that, taking responsibility for one's own actions! Novel idea these days....
tax payer posted at 8:10 pm on Thu, Sep 6, 2012.
The Master tells us we have to go forward, so why is he going backward and giving the illegals back a country that doesn't belong to them anymore? Arizona has a Governor that knows they don't need illegals in her State, but other Governors are scared to do what she has done for her citizens of her State.
tax payer posted at 8:02 pm on Thu, Sep 6, 2012.
I believe the mother should take her children back to her country and they can come back at age 21, so what is so wrong in expecting that to happen? Our country needs to stop making anchor babies citizens once they drop their anchor on our land.
Jesus Christo de Nogales posted at 2:17 pm on Sun, Sep 2, 2012.
Mr. Owebama. How is allowing 1,760,000 illegal occupiers to stay in the US and giving them work permits going to help lower unemployment? Do you not understand that these young, educated, motivated and potential small business creators are the only possibility for improving the standard of living in the poor Spanish speaking countries they came from? And you want to keep them in the US instead of helping our poor neighbors? Shame on you! No wonder the Spanish speaking peoples of the world hate the United States that steals their best and brightest. Shame on you.
Americans need to unite to help Mexico and Central America by returning these illegal occupiers back to their home land. You keep them in the US and you are only helping one person. Send them back and you are helping millions of their fellow citizens. Are you with me America?
DavidNichols posted at 11:25 am on Thu, Aug 30, 2012.
This is America's Darkest Hour.
Since the January 2008 start of the E-verify Law, and the Hitleresque I.C.E. Deportation/Incarceration Programs, Millions of Good Christian People have been Persecuted, both un-documented Immigrants and their legal Chil;dren/Families.
January 2008 was also The start of "The Great Recession."
Tens of Thousands of Vacated Immigrant/Families dwellings triggered the entire "Foreclosure Crisis" in America.
Fact: For every Good, Hard Working Immigrant Incarcerated, or Deported since January 2008 America has lost over Four times as many American Jobs.
Fact: The Hard Labor Immigrants gladly did FOR America was the very Foundation of our Strong Economy, and this HARD LABOR supported all other American Jobs.
Over Forty-two Thousand Hispanic Human Beings now lay Dead at the I,C,E, Deportation/Dumping Grounds at the Harsh U.S. Mexico Border where Hundreds of Thousands of Human Beings have been Dumped into a known "Drug War" with nothing, not even water, to be killed, or to Die of the Elements!
"America is great because it is good, when it ceases to be good, it ceases to be great."
Alex De Tocqueville
This Great Nation of Immigrants was Built by both un-documented, and documented Immigrants all along, and was Built on Far Better Principles, and Values than to rip a[part good Christian Families, and to Deport/Dump Human Beings in the Desert to Die!
This is our I.C.E.'d Economy!
I.C.E. "Put the Car in the Ditch"!
This didn't just happen?
And it won't "Simply Bounce Back"!
To Restore America:
Stop the Racism, stop the Hate.
To Good, and Brotherhood.
RollerCam posted at 8:40 pm on Mon, Aug 27, 2012.
I truly wonder... has America finally had enough of this Mexican invasion?
SonnyInAz posted at 10:47 pm on Sat, Aug 25, 2012.
"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?"
It's pretty simple. Don't enter the US illegally. We have laws for this reason. We have many very poor people that can't hardly survive for lack of food. However if they try and steal food from a store, they are arrested. You can't break laws out of necessity, or sympathy for family. Don't break the laws and this doesn't happen. Your question shouldn't be be "why can't she", it should be "why DID she" come here illegally. Don't start families here, allow your illegal family to come and stay, then when deported for it, cry about it. She knew full well she was here illegally and knew she would be deported for it if caught. She took a chance, and lost. They need to think about what they're doing before they do it. We're not without heart over this issue. I don't wan't families torn apart any more the you do. But if you can't abide by the laws of the country, just simply don't come here. I cringe at the thought of what would happen to me, if I did this in HER country......
Cerulean posted at 6:41 pm on Sat, Aug 25, 2012.
I agree with the above comments, but thought I would point out that the article says "families are wrestling with [this issue] as a record number of deportations" are underway. "despite President Barack Obama's promise that his administration would focus on removing only criminals."
A record number of migrants are being deported and that is a good thing. The children could have gone with mom.
Kate56 posted at 6:33 pm on Sat, Aug 25, 2012.
The Dems and the Repubs keep ramming these people down the American taxpayer's throat. I am tired of the rich elites up in DC. We should pay then the average salary in the USA, about 40,000, then after they pay state, federal, real estate, car, food, cloths, phone, electric TAX ask them, you got enough left over to support a bunch of illegals? They will think twice. We need to stop automatic citzenship and close the border. And one day, maybe, I hope that someone out in the liberal media will actually write a story about US citizens who have had their identity stolen and how it affected their lives. How come we don't hear about that? Why don't we hear about the beleagered middle class who barely has enough money left over for their own family, much less some other country's family. And why am I paying to educate the children of another country? It raises my real estate tax and I am sick of it. Fed up in Phoenix!
Bonnie Carol posted at 6:09 pm on Sat, Aug 25, 2012.
What's the problem here? Children stay with their parents, wherever the parents go. Too bad if they can't speak Spanish. What really pisses me off is that I couldn't find a job in CA even though I was qualified because I didn't speak the language of another country - Spanish! We have to cater to them and provide translators. Let them go back to Mexico and learn the language of another country.
Juggernaut8000 posted at 5:57 pm on Sat, Aug 25, 2012.
The dirty little ba stards shouldn't be American citizens to begin with and should be shipped to mexico with their criminal parents.
Now just wait for the bleeding heart liberal to scoff at my mean comment, yet still want my taxes to pay for someone else's mistake. Liberals have destroyed this great Country with their irrational rhetoric and pathetic hand outs.
samkat posted at 5:24 pm on Sat, Aug 25, 2012.
There are perfectly good alternatives. 1. The parent(s) have the option of taking their children with them; and, (2) They can turn them over to CPS.
We have service members being separated from their families every day but none of the pro illegals ever mention that fact. Also, consider that if the parent or parents went to prison, there would be no doubt about where the children would go.
This is exactly what happens when people violate our immigration laws and then expect the liberals to come to their aid. Sorry, but I lack compassion in this instance.
Diane posted at 5:15 pm on Sat, Aug 25, 2012.
People who enter the US ILLEGALLY do so to gain the freebies that we, the US taxpayers, are forced to provide. They breed and breed and we are forced to feed and educate these poor children who are never given the opportunity to live in their native countries and work to improve the quality of life there. Many ILLEGALS have criminal records, use drugs and alcohol and don't even care for their children and we the taxpayers, are forced to pay for their care. The children suffer because their parent(s) enter our country ILLEGALLY. They have no family here...they should be deported with their parent(s). If the parents truly wish to live in this country, it MUST be done according to our laws. We, the taxpayers, cannot afford to keep paying for what is becoming a breeding ground for ILLEGALS. Although their offspring are US citizens, they don't pay taxes and contribute little, if anything, except burned flags and costly protests. Do any ILLEGALS hold JOBS and PAY taxes? The US is bordering on bankruptcy and when that well is dry, WHO WILL PAY FOR THE ILLEGALS? Any constructive thoughts? [sad]