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2nd Grader Confides in First Lady Obama infront of National TV : My Mom is an Illegal Alien-- Yikes!!
{ The girls mom must be sweating bullets by now! If they lived in Maricopa County in Arizona, she better be out of "Dodge City" before Sheriff Arpaio catches wind of it.}
Michelle Obama, who visited New Hampshire Estates Elementary School in Silver Spring, Md., with Mexico's first lady Margarita Zavala, was caught in a headline-grabbing moment when a second-grader shyly raised her hand. She said: My mom "says Barack Obama's taking everybody away that doesn't have papers."
"Yeah, well that's something that we have to work on, right? To make sure that people can be here with the right kind of papers, right? That's exactly right," the first lady responded.
But then, the student quietly added: "But my mom doesn't have any."
"Well, we have to work on that," Mrs. Obama replied. "We have to fix that, and everybody's got to work together in Congress to make sure that happens. That's right."
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Politics/michell...
May 20, 2010
...For several years a range of academics have documented the powerful effect this uncertain future is having on the lives of children in America. The Immigration Policy Center has produced fact sheets and provides links which highlight these various studies.
The Ones They Leave Behind: Deportation of Lawful Permanent Residents Harm U.S. Citizen Children highlights more than 100,000 children were affected by deportation of a legal immigrant parent between 1997 and 2007. At least 88,000 of these children were U.S. citizens and 217,000 other immediate family members were affected by the deportation of a legal permanent resident. http://www.immigrationpolicy.org/just-fact...
Protecting Children in the Aftermath of Immigration Raids highlights the consequences of parental arrest, detention, and deportation on 190 children in 85 families in six locations across the country... http://www.immigrationpolicy.org/just-fact...
A Portrait of Unauthorized Immigrants in the United States, by the Pew Hispanic Center, finds that a growing share of the children of unauthorized immigrant parents - 73% - were born in this country and are U.S. citizens.
http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1190/portrait-...
For more information contact Wendy Sefsaf at wsefsaf@immcouncil.org or 202-507-7524.
Michelle Obama, who visited New Hampshire Estates Elementary School in Silver Spring, Md., with Mexico's first lady Margarita Zavala, was caught in a headline-grabbing moment when a second-grader shyly raised her hand. She said: My mom "says Barack Obama's taking everybody away that doesn't have papers."
"Yeah, well that's something that we have to work on, right? To make sure that people can be here with the right kind of papers, right? That's exactly right," the first lady responded.
But then, the student quietly added: "But my mom doesn't have any."
"Well, we have to work on that," Mrs. Obama replied. "We have to fix that, and everybody's got to work together in Congress to make sure that happens. That's right."
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Politics/michell...
May 20, 2010
...For several years a range of academics have documented the powerful effect this uncertain future is having on the lives of children in America. The Immigration Policy Center has produced fact sheets and provides links which highlight these various studies.
The Ones They Leave Behind: Deportation of Lawful Permanent Residents Harm U.S. Citizen Children highlights more than 100,000 children were affected by deportation of a legal immigrant parent between 1997 and 2007. At least 88,000 of these children were U.S. citizens and 217,000 other immediate family members were affected by the deportation of a legal permanent resident. http://www.immigrationpolicy.org/just-fact...
Protecting Children in the Aftermath of Immigration Raids highlights the consequences of parental arrest, detention, and deportation on 190 children in 85 families in six locations across the country... http://www.immigrationpolicy.org/just-fact...
A Portrait of Unauthorized Immigrants in the United States, by the Pew Hispanic Center, finds that a growing share of the children of unauthorized immigrant parents - 73% - were born in this country and are U.S. citizens.
http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1190/portrait-...
For more information contact Wendy Sefsaf at wsefsaf@immcouncil.org or 202-507-7524.
Bro. Mozell,
You don't have to be legalistic here with me. The point is something must be done and there is no way that 20 million undocumented people are going to be sent back to there respective countries for two reasons:
1. Republicans and American businesses make too much off their cheap labor
2. There is no budget alloted to even try to deport them.
It makes better sense to let these people pay a fine and find a path to be citizens. I'm tired of people in politics and their double talk. Let's help these people to become legal. Comprehensive Immigration Reform will happen and I know that for sure without a doubt in my heart and mind, because its the right thing for the United States to do.
This great country has always been a land built on the sweat and hard work of immigrants both legal and illegal. The slaves who came by boat against their wills and those free people who came by boat as an act of their wills.