Whether documented or undocumented, immigrants are often caught up in lengthy legal actions. When immigrant parents get into legal trouble, their children can be extremely vulnerable. In the event of incarceration or deportation of an immigrant parent, the courts decide what will happen to their children.<\/p>\n
Governmental bodies, of course, purport to have the best interests of those children at heart. But parents \u2013 the most important advocates a child can have \u2013 are often excluded from court proceedings if they are involved in immigration disputes. These are the proceedings in which parental rights and the child’s future are decided: at least 5000 children nationwide are in foster care because their parents have been detained or deported.<\/p>\n
In recent sessions of Congress, lawmakers introduced a bill called the Humane Enforcement and Legal Protections (HELP) for Separated Children Act. The bill ensures a number of crucial protections for children of immigrants that find themselves (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Whether documented or undocumented, immigrants are often caught up in lengthy legal actions. When immigrant parents get into legal trouble, their children can be extremely vulnerable. In the event of incarceration or deportation of an immigrant parent, the courts decide…<\/span><\/p>\n