Jonathan Valencia
April 17, 2016
ENG 1121- D465
Assignment: Research paper
Deportation of immigrants
Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel once said, “You, who are so-called illegal aliens, must know that no human being is illegal. That is a contradiction in terms. Human beings can be beautiful or more beautiful, they can be fat or skinny, they can be right or wrong, but illegal? How can a human being be illegal?” In the United States there are a lot of immigrants who are here to have a better job for they can provide for family back home. They are here to work or get out of the country they once where to avoid violence. Deportation has a lot of risk as if we are really convinced if a person is bad or not. While some people don’t know there is also violence inside walls in which we have never entered. Gangs trying to recruit the young to bring more violence into this world. Kids having no role models due to the fact their parents are here working for he can have a better life there or some being orphans. There are a lot of immigrants from various countries men, women, and children trying to make a better life for themselves but are always worrying about being deported and causes the separation of families, over populated camps, and a bigger issue is deporting children.
Many families daily are being separated from their love ones due to having an illegal immigrant status. Vanessa Ceceña says, “Deportations can destroy the family structure.” The deportation of a family member can affect their love ones as they are going to be separated from their wife, husband, and kids. Some people don’t realize that a family’s separation can leave a heartbreaking impact on the children the most as they won’t have a mother or father figure role model in the lives when they grow up. Sadly, sometimes not only one family member is deported but both at the same time leaving there children in a miserable state as having the people they love the most with them taken away in front of their eyes.
Nobody in today’s world wants to be torn apart from the people who they love and care about the most as both parties are going to suffer greatly. Children from immigrants suffer the most due to having to role model in their life and not knowing from the right and wrong. In case there is a situation where both parents are deported the children are placed in foster care. Ceceña article says “According to the ARC’s report, there are at least 5,100 children in foster care due to a parent being deported or detained.” While the families are being separated we hope to see a reunion between them unfortunately the possibilities of that happening is very slim. We don’t realize that once a member of the house hold is gone who is going to bring money in order to buy food, clothes, pay bills and many more and one parent might need to find multiple jobs in order for his/her family to survive.
Shockingly we have children immigrants studying for a better future for themselves being deported due to their status of an immigrant. People don’t realize that these children being deported are trying their best to have a better life in which they can help their parents with paying bills or support them in anyways they can. When speaking the deportation of children we are not speaking a couple we are talking about a lot. Kate Linthicum says” More than 7,000 immigrant children have been ordered deported without appearing in court since large numbers of minors from Central America began illegally crossing the U.S. border in 2013, federal statistics show.” They are having their right of having a judge hearing because they were never given one.
Cited Work
Linthicum, Kate contact reporter “7,000 immigrant children ordered deported without going to court.” latimes.com 6 March 2015
