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From: Peter Munoz <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Monday, February 4, 2008 5:41 pm
Subject: Paying the Price: The Impact of Immigration Raids on America's Children
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> Paying the Price: The Impact of Immigration Raids on America's Children
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> Author(s): Randolph Capps < , Rosa
> Maria Castaneda < , Ajay Chaudry
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> Posted to Web: October 31, 2007
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> Permanent Link: http://www.urban.org/url.cfm?ID=411566
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> The nonpartisan Urban Institute publishes studies, reports, and books
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> timely topics worthy of public consideration. The views expressed are
> those of the authors and should not be attributed to the Urban
> Institute, its trustees, or its funders.
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> Abstract
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> Over the past year, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has intensified
> immigration enforcement activities by conducting several large-scale
> worksite raids across the country. From an in-depth study of three
> communities-Greeley, CO, Grand Island, NE and New Bedford, MA-this
> report details the impact of these worksite raids on the well-being of
> children. The report provides detailed recommendations to a variety of
> stakeholders to help mitigate the harmful effects of worksite raids on
> children.
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> Introduction
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> There are approximately five million U.S. children with at least one
> undocumented parent. The recent intensification of immigration
> enforcement activities by the federal government has increasingly put
> these children at risk of family separation, economic hardship, and
> psychological trauma. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE),
> the interior enforcement arm of the Department of Homeland Security
> (DHS), the federal agency charged with enforcing immigration laws, has
> markedly increased the pace of worksite raids in the past few years to
> apprehend undocumented immigrants: the number of undocumented immigrants
> arrested at workplaces increased more than sevenfold from 500 to 3,600
> between 2002 and 2006. These actions are part of intensified enforcement
> activities, including deportation of immigrants who have committed
> crimes; door-to-door operations to arrest immigrants with deportation
> orders; and large-scale raids of suspected undocumented immigrants'
> worksites. With the collapse of comprehensive immigration reform in
> Congress, and the all but certain appropriation of additional
> enforcement resources to ICE, it is likely that the number of worksite
> actions will continue to increase.
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> The primary goal of this paper is to go beyond the human interest
> stories reported in the media and provide a factual basis for discussing
> the impact of worksite enforcement operations on children with
> undocumented parents. The study focuses on children because they have
> strong claims to the protection of society, especially when they are
> citizens and integrated into their schools and communities, and the
> United States is the only country they have known and consider home.
> They also warrant our attention because they are emotionally,
> financially, and developmentally dependent on their parents' care,
> protection, and earnings.
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> The findings discussed in this report are based on a study of three
> communities that experienced large-scale worksite raids within the past
> year: Greeley, Colorado; Grand Island, Nebraska; and New Bedford,
> Massachusetts. In each location Urban Institute staff met with
> employers, lawyers, religious leaders, public social service agencies,
> nonprofit agencies, community leaders, and others to discuss the
> immediate aftermath of the raids, as well as the potential longer-term
> impact on children. Parents, including some released from ICE detention,
> and other caregivers of affected children were interviewed individually.
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> Greeley and Grand Island were two of the six sites in which Swift &
> Company meatpacking plants were raided. New Bedford was the site of a
> raid on Michael Bianco, Inc., a textile manufacturing facility that
> makes backpacks for the U.S. military. In all three sites the vast
> majority of workers arrested were from Mexico, Guatemala, or other Latin
> American countries. The findings in this report, however, may also be
> applicable to children with undocumented parents from other regions of
> the world, as about 22% of all undocumented immigrants in the nation
> come from regions other than Latin America.
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