Gathering to Raise Awarness About Children Left Orphaned by Deportation

On August 29th, Causa Oregon will host a gathering in Portland of American children left orphaned by our broken immigration system.   During the event, stories of  U.S. citizen children whose parents have been deported or detained will be shared along with information about the social and economic consequences of enforcement-only immigration policy on families.

August 29, 2012 @ 5:30pm
Orphaned by Deportation: An American Story  
St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church
1704 NE 43rd Ave.
Portland, Oregon  

The U.S. has deported 46,000 Parents with Citizen Kids in Just Six Months. The rising number of parental deportations has corresponded with an overall increase in immigration enforcement under the Obama administration; in fiscal year 2011, a record 397,000 people were deported.  

New data, released to the Applied Research Center in September, reveals that more than 22 percent of all people deported in the first half of this year were parents of citizen kids. If rates of parental deportation remain steady in the year to come, The number of children of non-citizens placed in the U.S. child welfare system will no doubt rise  

 


Resources:

Thousands of Kids Lost from Parents in U.S. Deportation System http://colorlines.com/archives/2011/11/thousands_of_kids_lost_in_foster_homes_after_parents_deportation.html