ICE Raids – Impact on American Children and Families
// May 23rd, 2008 // Immigration
The Education and Labor Subcommittee on Workforce Protections held hearings this past week concerning “ICE Workplace Raids: Their Impact on U.S. Children, Families, and Communities.” Witnesses explored how immigration enforcement could be improved in order to protect children, most of whom are American citizens.
Subcommittee Chairwoman Lynn Woolsey opened the hearing with a long list of ICE raids in immigrant communities, highlighting that 12 children arrested at the raids in Postville were children between the ages of 15-17, working at the plant in violation of child labor laws and that as of last Thursday, they were still in detention. (Why is the employer–Agriprocessors–still in business?)
We have 4.7 million children in households where at least one parent is undocumented. 3.1 million of these children are American citizens while many of the rest are our fellow DREAMers.
One example given was that of Kebin Reyes, a U.S. citizen who saw his father being led away by the ICE at the age of 6 and himself spent 10 hours in detention. Imagine a 6-year old American citizen in detention for 10 hours without his family for a civil violation commited by his undocumented father. Is that really necessary? Kebin suffered from severe emotional trauma as a result of this experience.
Separating families, traumatizing children, detaining them and disrupting their education serves no compelling state interest. We need more accountability and humanitarian procedures from the ICE in dealing with undocumented workers and their families.
Another video of the hearing is here featuring Simon Romo, Chief Counsel for New Mexico Child Protective Services.
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Anytime a criminal is arrested and detained, it affects their children. We don’t make exceptions for home-grown garden variety criminals, so no exceptions for illegals.
The only difference is, if they don’t take their illegals and anchor babies with them, they should be jailed for abandonment of their children. You breed em, you feed em. We are sick of your sucking on the government teat and reaching into our pockets.
There’s something that was invented that will help…it’s called BIRTH CONTROL. Try it, we would all be happy.
Well, the parents need to think about that before they decide to come here illegally and use a stolen identity to work. They are no different from other criminals.
And I agree, AgProcessors needs to be out of business. I hope the business is taken over by someone who will pay real union wages to US citizens to help Postville recover.
The hearings are just theatre. Our members of Congress have made commitments to voting against DREAM and any amnesty or path to legalization. They like their jobs and want to keep them, and realize the only way to do that is to respond to the many, many phone calls, letters against amnesty.
The few mushy hearts who trot out these sob stories are in the minority. Who cares?