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flapjackstate:
[image: a bar chart with criminal and non-criminal deportations plotted together, with the number of both more than doubling between 2002 and 2010].
brosephstalin:
mohandasgandhi:
Obama’s immigration policies are destroying families
As the nation’s toughest immigration law goes under review in Alabama, new victims of anti-immigrant policies are swept under the rug according to a new report from the Applied Research Center, which advocates for immigration reform. The report states that there are about 5,100 children in 22 states in foster care as a result of parental deportation. ARC expects that number to triple in the next five years.
Nearly 397,000 people were deported in fiscal year 2011, up from over 392,000 in 2010. Over a million people have been deported under the Obama administration.
White House Director of Intergovernmental Affairs Cecilia Muñoz told PBS Frontline: “Even if the [immigration] law is executed with perfection, there will be parents separated from their children.”
Why do liberals want me to vote for Obama again?
Don’t like the PSL at all but the info here is right and important.
How much of this is attributable to Obama? Almost all of the graph goes before his presidency. It must be said that he has done nothing to prevent deportation during his term however. Wasn’t he for some kind of immigrant amnesty during his election campaign?
umm wtf does it matter wtf he SAID he was for when clearly that shit dont correlate w reality?
no, obama. just no.
I meant it as an example of his hypocrisy. It’s difficult to say how much he’s able to actually change though, since the immigration prison lobby is huge and politics is corrupt as hell. He might actually want to change things but has his hands tied. It’s not really surprising that the president is unable to change systematic oppression, especially that which makes money.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvb1gx6SS71qzhl7go1_1280.jpg)
As the nation’s toughest immigration law goes under review in Alabama, new victims of anti-immigrant policies are swept under the rug according to a new report from the Applied Research Center, which advocates for immigration reform. The report states that there are about 5,100 children in 22 states in foster care as a result of parental deportation. ARC expects that number to triple in the next five years.
Nearly 397,000 people were deported in fiscal year 2011, up from over 392,000 in 2010. Over a million people have been deported under the Obama administration.
White House Director of Intergovernmental Affairs Cecilia Muñoz told PBS Frontline: “Even if the [immigration] law is executed with perfection, there will be parents separated from their children.”
