The Shame of America's Family Detention Camps
"Over the past six years, President Obama has tried to
make children the centerpiece of his efforts to put a gentler face on
U.S. immigration policy. Even as his administration has deported a
record number of unauthorized immigrants, surpassing two million
deportations last year, it has pushed for greater leniency toward
undocumented children. After trying and failing to pass the Dream Act
legislation, which would offer a path to permanent residency for
immigrants who arrived before the age of 16, the president announced an
executive action in 2012 to block their deportation. Last November,
Obama added an executive order to extend those protections to their
parents. “We’re going to keep focusing enforcement resources on actual
threats to our security,” he said in a speech on Nov. 20. “Felons, not
families. Criminals, not children. Gang members, not a mom who’s working
hard to provide for her kids.” But the president’s new policies apply
only to immigrants who have been in the United States for more than five
years; they do nothing to address the emerging crisis on the border
today."
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