BREAKING: President Obama To Stop Deporting DREAM-Eligible Youth

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17. I've taught in an immigrant community for 3 decades. Yes, deportations happen daily.

Any time the immigrants have an encounter with law enforcement, deportation is a possibility. I can't count the number of times a student has been absent for several days and comes back to tell us his dad or mom or grandpa or grandma is in jail and the family was involved in trying to prevent a deportation. We also have an increase in kids who are gone for weeks at a time because the family went to Mexico or Dominican Republic or some other Central American country to visit a recently deported relative.

Here's how it works - the immigrant is picked up by local cops who turn him over to ICE. They incarcerate him at a facility close to the airport (very far from the community where our immigrants live) and hold them for 10 days. If the family is able to raise $3000 bail, the immigrant is released and has 30 days to leave the country voluntarily. He is allowed to come back legally in the future. If they are not able to raise the bail, the immigrant is deported and banned from ever again coming to the US.