Tag Archives: family

Watch this video on the impossible choice faced by many undocumented women

By Maya | Published: October 3, 2012

TweetAn important new campaign called #ImHere is highlighting the terrible choice millions of immigrant women face in the United States: between keeping themselves and children safe and keeping their families together. The human rights group Breakthrough made this heartwrenching video: Click here for transcript. Norma Ortiz, an activist and former undocumented immigrant, has a story [...]

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Familiy ties: immigration, deportation and child welfare

Originally posted in Feministing

By Eesha Pandit | Published: November 7, 2011

TweetMany of you might be aware that the recent rates of detention and deportation have been alarmingly high. Many immigrant families are being broken apart. A new report from the Applied Research Center gets into an important question: What happens to the children of parents who are detained or deported? What happens to these families? [...]