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3 results foundAuthor: Southwest Institute for Research on Women, College of Lopaz, Tomas Title: Left Back: The Impact of SB 1070 on Arizona's Youth Summary: In April 2010, the State of Arizona passed SB 1070, a law designed to reduce the size of Arizona’s undocumented immigrant population through aggressive state enforcement of federal immigration laws. Its passage sparked worldwide controversy and debate. It also led to lawsuits challenging the law’s constitutionality, and as a result, on July 28, 2010, one day before the law was scheduled to go into effect, a federal district court enjoined the law. This decision was subsequently upheld by the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and a final appeal of the decision is currently pending before the U.S. Supreme Court, which has not yet decided whether it will hear the case. Although SB 1070 was never actually fully implemented, there is no question that it has had real effects on the state. Most attention to date has focused on the legislation’s impact on Arizona’s economy. This report focuses on a different type of impact – one that may be less tangible but has equally serious implications for the future of the state: SB 1070’s impact on youth. Based on over 70 interviews in seven different schools in Pima County, this report summarizes the perspectives of teachers, parents, and students themselves on how young people have been impacted by the law’s passage. The report’s findings reveal a disturbing picture of youth destabilized, disillusioned, and disadvantaged by the passage of SB 1070. Their communities have been frayed by the departure of family members and friends. Their educations have been undermined by, among other factors, decreased school enrollments and the distress left in the wake of those departures. Many young people and their families also maintain a powerful mistrust of the public institutions around them, especially police, but also often extending to schools. Details: Tucson: University of Arizona, Bacon Immigration Law and Policy program, James E. Rogers College of Law, 2011. 27p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed November 23, 2011 at: http://www.law.arizona.edu/depts/bacon_program/pdf/left_back.pdf Year: 2011 Country: United States URL: http://www.law.arizona.edu/depts/bacon_program/pdf/left_back.pdf Shelf Number: 123438 Keywords: Children of Illegal ImmigrantsIllegal Immigrants (Arizona) |
Author: Rabin, Nina Title: Disappearing Parents: A Report on Immigration Enforcement and the Child Welfare System Summary: Quiet, slow motion tragedies unfold every day in immigration detention centers throughout the country, as parents caught up in immigration enforcement are separated from their young children and disappear into the detention system. If no relative is identified who can take the children at the time of an immigrant parent's apprehension, the children may be placed in state custody and find themselves in foster homes, abruptly unable to communicate with their parents or even know where their parents are. If parents choose to accept their deportation, they risk being forever separated from their children, since their children will likely be unable to accompany them so long as they remain in state custody. If parents choose instead to fight their deportation, they often remain detained for months or even years, greatly complicating efforts to reunify as a family even if they are eventually successful in their case against deportation. Details: Tucson: Bacon Immigration Law and Policy Program, James E. Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona, 2011. 38p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed November 23, 2011 at: http://www.law.arizona.edu/depts/bacon_program/pdf/disappearing_parents_report_final.pdf Year: 2011 Country: United States URL: http://www.law.arizona.edu/depts/bacon_program/pdf/disappearing_parents_report_final.pdf Shelf Number: 123439 Keywords: Children of Illegal ImmigrantsIllegal Immigrants (Arizona)Immigrant DetentionImmigrationImmigration Enforcement |
Author: Women's Refugee Commission Title: Torn Apart by Immigration Enforcement: Parental Rights and Immigration Detention Summary: Approximately 5.5 million children in the United States live with at least one undocumented parent. Three million of them are U.S. citizens. These children are uniquely situated in relation to federal immigration law because immigration enforcement activities against their parents can have a particularly dramatic and disproportionate effect on them. According to a report by the Department of Homeland Security, Office of the Inspector General, more than 108,000 alien parents of U.S. citizen children were removed from the United States between 1998 and 2007.4 Deportation forces countless parents to make heart-wrenching decisions about what to do with their children. For some families, however, there is no choice to be made. Immigration apprehension, detention and deportation can trigger a complex series of events that undermine parents’ ability to make decisions about their children’s care, complicate family reunification and can — in some circumstances — lead to the termination of parental rights. With the exception of parents apprehended in large worksite enforcement operations, few parents benefit from time-of-apprehension protocols designed to minimize adverse consequences of detention and deportation on children. There is no guarantee that apprehended parents can make a phone call within a reasonable time of apprehension in order to make care arrangements for children. While Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) makes efforts to identify and release parents apprehended in large worksite raids, the majority of parents are not subject to any humanitarian protections and immigration officers struggle with how to handle apprehensions where children will be impacted. Many parents are transferred from the area in which they are apprehended to an immigration detention center without knowing what care arrangements have been made for their children and without knowing how to remain in contact with their children. For these parents, it can be difficult, if not impossible, to locate and reunite with their children at the conclusion of their immigration case. The legal systems governing immigration law and family and child welfare law are not well calibrated. The awkward intersection of these two disciplines can create challenges to parental rights and family unity, violations of due process, significant trauma for children and an undue burden for our social services system. Yet adverse effects that arise at the crossroads of the two systems could be reduced or avoided through policies and procedures that are not inconsistent with the enforcement of existing immigration or child welfare laws. Since the Women’s Refugee Commission began focusing on this issue in 2007, we have found that challenges to parental rights are becoming more frequent as immigration enforcement expands. Our interviews with detained parents continue to reveal cases in which parents are unable to locate or communicate with their children, unable to participate in reunification plans and family court proceedings, and unable to make arrangements to take their children with them when they leave the country. With the increased participation of states and localities in immigration enforcement programs like Secure Communities and the expansion of this program nationwide by 2013 we can expect the number of parents who are apprehended and deported to remain stable or increase. Unless ICE takes steps to reduce the unnecessary detention of parents, to ensure that detained parents can take steps to protect their parental rights and to facilitate the ability of parents facing deportation to make decisions in the best interest of their children, challenges to parental rights will remain a very real problem for children, families and society. Details: New York: Women's Refugee Commission, 2010. 36p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed November 23, 2011 at: www.womenscommission.org Year: 2010 Country: United States URL: Shelf Number: 123440 Keywords: Children of Illegal ImmigrantsDeportationIllegal AliensIllegal ImmigrantsImmigrant DetentionImmigration Enforcement |