In the United States today, more than 16.7 million people share a home with at least one family member, often a parent, who is undocumented. Roughly six million of these people are children under the age of 18. Consequently, immigration enforcement actions—and the ever-present threat of deportation—have significant physical, emotional, developmental, and economic repercussions for millions of children across the country. Deportations of parents and other family members have serious consequences that affect children—including U.S.-citizen children—and extend to entire communities and the country as a whole.
Children experience toxic stress when they are suddenly separated from their parents, which negatively impacts brain development. They are also at greater risk of developing chronic mental health conditions that include depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), as well as physical conditions such as cancer, stroke, diabetes, and heart disease.
Source: American Immigration Council
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Did you know?
A mixed-status household (or, a mixed-status family) is one whose members include people with different citizenship or varying immigration statuses – a common case being where the parents are undocumented (i.e., residing in the United States without permission) and the children are US citizens (USCs). The National Immigration Law Center (NILC) reported the number of mixed-status families is growing.
As of 2018, more than a quarter of young children in the United States were children of immigrants, and over 90 percent of these children were US citizens.
Cancellation of Removal (Evaluating Children)
Evaluating extreme hardship in children ages 4-17 for parents’ cancellation of removal proceedings
Friday, February 11th
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Matthew G. Holt
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Hurwitz Holt, APLC
Q: What is “Exceptional and Extremely Unusual Hardship”?
A: When this form of relief was first developed by Congress in 1996, the legislative history, since quoted by the 2001 BIA’s decision in Matter of Monreal, stated that exceptional and extremely unusual hardship means that a person undergoing removal proceedings must provide evidence of hardship to his qualifying spouse, parent, or child, where the hardship is “substantially different from, or beyond that which would be normally expected from the deportation of an alien with close family members [in the United States].”
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