US deporting children of parents allowed to stay

[Judi Lynn]

US deporting children of parents allowed to stay
By Maria Sacchetti | Globe Staff September 23, 2014

LYNN — When powerful earthquakes rocked El Salvador in 2001, the US government told Carlos Ramos it was unsafe to go home. Officials gave him and thousands of other immigrants work permits, and a reason to stay in America by renewing those permits year after year.

Now the same federal agency that gave Ramos permission to stay is planning to deport his teenage son.
The boy, also named Carlos, was caught crossing the southern border after fleeing gang violence in El Salvador in 2012, too late to apply for the same permit that federal officials granted to his parents. He is the only family member here without permission, but immigration officials have repeatedly refused to halt his deportation.

“It’s a death sentence,” his father said.

In the chaotic aftermath of last summer’s border crisis, when thousands of minors from crime-ridden Central American nations streamed into the United States, lawyers are discovering a bizarre irony in the immigration system: the Obama administration is deporting the children of adults it has allowed to remain in the United States.

“There’s no angle you could look at this situation from and have it make any sense,” said the Ramos family’s lawyer, Kira Gagarin of Framingham.

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http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/09/22/deporting-children-parents-allowed-stay/kpP4aWNq3olgZbsO4zkiaI/story.html

[Mnemosyne]

1. Never ends, does it JL? nt

[Judi Lynn]

3. Not a bit. Horrendous. Never ever seems to improve. How can that be, even?

You'd think if we're going to be cruel to the people here, we could at least stop screwing with their governments back in their home countries, creating so much suffering for the poor they have to try to escape, and run somewhere less dangerous for the citizens within.

[Louisiana1976]

2. The US should not be splitting up families this way.

[Judi Lynn]

4. Unbearably sad. n/t