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Author: Wessler, Seth Freed

Title: Shattered Families: The Perilous Intersection of Immigration Enforcement and the Child Welfare System

Summary: This report presents a national investigation on threats to families when immigration enforcement and the child welfare system intersect. It explores the extent to which children in foster care are prevented from uniting with their detained or deported parents and the failures of the child welfare system to adequately work to reunify these families. Immigration policies and laws are based on the assumption that families will, and should, be united, whether or not parents are deported. Similarly, child welfare policy aims to reunify families whenever possible. In practice, however, when mothers and fathers are detained and deported and their children are relegated to foster care, family separation can last for extended periods. Too often, these children lose the opportunity to ever see their parents again when a juvenile dependency court terminates parental rights. In fiscal year 2011, the United States deported a record-breaking 397,000 people and detained nearly that many. According to federal data released to ARC through a Freedom of Information Act request, a growing number and proportion of deportees are parents. In the first six months of 2011, the federal government removed more than 46,000 mothers and fathers of U.S.-citizen children. These deportations shatter families and endanger the children left behind.

Details: New York: Applied Research Center, 2011. 65p.

Source: Internet Resource: Accessed March 28, 2012 at: http://act.colorlines.com/acton/form/1069/0041:d-0001/0/index.htm

Year: 2011

Country: United States

URL: http://act.colorlines.com/acton/form/1069/0041:d-0001/0/index.htm

Shelf Number: 124753

Keywords:
Child Welfare
Deportation (U.S.)
Foster Care
Immigrant Children
Immigrant Detention
Immigration
Immigration Enforcement