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.
Surprisingly 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 taken away because they were never given date to see one.
Sadly children of all ages are being deported back to their countries due to them not being legal. The children that have nowhere to go and to look up to might possibly be recruited in a gang as they see that the only place to escape to. There have reports as latino gangs trying to recruit the minor to their organization to have more soldiers on the streets. “The nation’s most violent street gangs—including Mara Salvatrucha—are actively recruiting new members at U.S. shelters housing illegal immigrant minors” this shows that criminal organizations are will to get the young children attention to make them seen as roll models. There are reports that children are already involve in criminal organizations like ms13 or 18th street gangs.
The children that are going too deported have no one to look after them due to not having family members around. The shelters that have minors are overcrowded due to having kids from different age groups there. Children are being sent back to their countries without a guardian due to some may have been alone when entering the United States and others being separated from their parents. As they are sent back they have no one to look up to as they are constantly fighting to survive. The young children might be sent to an orphanage or to put in a foster family. Due to these type of situations judges will release the kid with either their mother or father. Judge Dolly M. Gee said “she will order the government to move quickly to release all illegal immigrant children and try to release their parents as well.”
Shockingly immigration facilities are overpopulated and corrupted. Immigrants inside the facilities have their rights taken away due to them not being legal. The conditions at these are unsanitary and have been reports of the officers taking advantage of their powers. These facilities that are supposed to house a certain amount of people are housing the double the amount than it was supposed to be. James Lyall said “This current situation is a recipe for abuse vulnerable children.” There are unhealthy condition of these facilities for the adults and the children. These conditions are very sad as you can see visitors and children crying.
Facilities of immigrations are always corrupt due to the people staying over there are having their right taken away. Some of the immigrates staying at these centers have probably been there for months or even years as they want to be release or have a judge hearing. Sadly some stay there for they can’t be return to their countries and them not signing a contract in which they can be deported. Sometimes family members that are detained are moved from one center to another because these centers are overcrowded. The detainees are being abused by the officer for the reason to get them the sign the contracts some fear for themselves as it could happen to them. They are lied to everyday and not given any privileges.
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. There is corruption inside the walls of detention centers. Children having nowhere and some joining crime organizations to survive. Loved ones being separated from each other as they are taken away by immigration officers. People fight every day for a better life for themselves and their family. Sadly rules that distinguish who are legal and who are illegal that doesn’t make them equal to each other.
Cited Work
Linthicum, Kate contact reporter “7,000 immigrant children ordered deported without going to court.” latimes.com 6 March 2015
Ceceña, Vanessa “Immigration, Deportation, and Family Separation” sandiegofreepress.org 4 September 2014
Obama loses last legal buffer against surge of immigrants
Detention facilities illegal; holding families breaks 1997 agreement
Stephen Dinan – The Washington Times – Saturday, July 25, 2015
Overcrowded, unsanitary conditions seen at immigrant detention centers
Molly Hennessy-Fiske and Cindy CarcamoContact Reporters June 18, 2015
