Removed: The Realities Of Deportation

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A Fronteras Desk series about the lives of parents and children -- some are American citizens -- when deportation affects the family.

By the end of 2013, close to 2 million people will have been deported under the Obama administration.

A Fronteras Desk series begins with three stories about the lives of parents and children -- some of whom are American citizens -- when deportation affects the family.

More stories will follow in coming weeks.


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Caption: Deported parents with children who are wards of the state in the U.S. are sometimes able to visit with their children at the border in Tijuana., Credit: Jill Replogle
One in four deportees have a U.S. citizen child left behind. As they struggle to prove to U.S. social workers and the courts that they can take car...

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  • Added: Jun 11, 2013
  • Length: 04:05
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Caption: Tania Velasquez, a Mexican national, hopes to regain custody of her 3-year-old daughter, who is a U.S. Citizen. , Credit: Jill Replogle
The Senate Immigration Reform bill includes provisions that could ease the way for deportees with children in the U.S. child welfare system. Curren...

  • Added: Jun 11, 2013
  • Length: 04:02
Caption: Support group meeting for foreign students and their parents at the Biblioteca Benito Juárez in Tijuana., Credit: Joel Medina
In the last two years, more than 205,000 parents of American citizen children were deported from the United States. That means a new influx of Amer...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2013
  • Length: 03:47
Caption: A drawing by the American child of deported parents in Tijuana., Credit: Beth Caldwell
The majority of the 400,000 people deported from the U.S. in 2012 were adults, many with criminal records, but minors are sometimes caught up in th...

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  • Added: Apr 23, 2013
  • Length: 03:47
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Caption: An American boy walks down a street in Guanajuato, Mexico with his father, a deported Mexican national., Credit: Erin Siegal McIntyre
Hundreds, if not thousands, of deported parents are trying to reunite with children left behind in the United States.

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  • Added: Apr 23, 2013
  • Length: 03:46
  • Purchases: 1