Separation by Law

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and this is all due to immigration laws in this country. According to an article in Legal Momentum, “many illegal immigrant parents have had their U.S. born children taken away from then and put into foster care, which is a violation of their rights to custody of their children.” Although these situations do not sound like they happen in places near you, they do. The Hispanic community is the fastest growing minority population within the United States, making the Hispanic population very large. This issue is not happening in one specific area of the United States it is happening everywhere and happening very often. “According to a report by the Inspector General’s Office of DHS, at least 108,434 undocumented parents of U.S. born citizen children were removed from the United States between the years 1998 and 2007,” as written in an article in the Legal Momentum. Once these parents lose their children it is very hard to get them back or even file a custody case because of their ...

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