Essay On Undocumented Children

In the United States (U.S.) an estimate of 150,000 American citizen children had a parent deported in the year 2012. The United States today is made up of over 11 million illegal/undocumented immigrants; many of this undocumented immigrants have American citizen children who are often left behind when one or both of the parents are deported to the parent’s country of origin. American Immigration laws should be reformed to help American citizen children, born to illegal parents, live without fear that one day the parent could face deportation. This children should be able to maintain their lives here in America with both parents if they choose to just like any other American citizen with legal parents. The percentage of illegal immigrants has increase yearly however America has not changed the immigration laws in years. According to the 14th amendment of the United …show more content…
When a child is born by either one or both of their parents being undocumented the parent/parents can be deported and the child might go along with them, stay with legal family members, or the government takes the child. Many of the parents that are stopped my police officers and are taken into custody often do not get to choose what happens with the child/children. If a legal family member is not contacted then the child/children are taken into foster care. Taken a kid to a foster home cost money to the government (tax payers). At times the parents get to decide if the children go along with them back to the parent’s country or if the child stays here in America. If an undocumented parent gets deported and they take the kid along with them, that child will become illegal in the parents country because they are American citizen. Therefore when the United States deports parents living in the U.S. illegally and the parents take the children along the government is not only deporting undocumented immigrants but American citizens