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Deportations throw children into foster care

  • 11-17-2011
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Blog by Anthony Cody/Education Week

There is an ugly reality that many of us are spared from, but which is omnipresent in the lives of many of our students. Latino journalists last week confronted President Obama with the news that immigration enforcement is breaking up families. A yearlong investigation by the Applied Research Center revealed that at least 5,100 children are currently stuck in foster care because their parents have been detained or deported by immigration officials. A report in Colorlines highlighted a typical case: (more...

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