Stop Deporting Parents

Stop Deporting Parents - Record Number of Deportations in Last Two Years of Parents of U.S. Citizens Nearly 205K Deportations of Parents of U.S. Citizens in Just Over Two Years

by Seth Freed Wessler

The federal government conducted more than 200,000

deportations of parents who said their children are U.S.

citizens in a timespan of just over two years, according to

new data obtained by Colorlines.com. The figures represent the

longest view to date of the scale of parental deportation.

Between July 1, 2010, and Sept. 31, 2012, nearly 23 percent of

all deportations - or, 204,810 deportations - were issued for

parents with citizen children, according to federal data

unearthed through a Freedom of Information Act request.

December 17, 2012 ,  ColorLines

http://colorlines.com/archives/2012/12/us_deports_more_than_200k_parents.html