Comments about ‘The children left behind: Dad's deportation lands son in foster care’

I'm glad the D-News exposes the truth on the matter. Something needs to be done.

Any time parents are arrested and jailed the children are placed with foster care or relatives. Parents have a right to make arrangements for the children to stay here with relatives (citizens) or leave with them. If they don't get the opportunity, then it's the state services fault.

Case law on birthright children was decided long ago, a child born here goes with the parents, unless they make arrangements for family (citizens) to take them. The judge was wrong on this case.

We are talking isolated incidents. Much the same happens when people break other laws and both parents end up in jail. 3000 isolated cases is not enough to stop deportations of those here illegally.

State social services need to be more diligent in assuring that laws are followed and the child is returned home with the parent. With 400,000 deported each year, this is less than .01%

This wouldn't have happened if the dad had knocked at our front door instead of sneaking in through an unlocked rear window. People who enter our country have no respect for our laws .... by definition.

You can go to ICe's website and check. Their official policy is that the children go with the parents. We have seen enough articles in this paper the past few years to know this is true, in most cases.

If the parent doesn't want the responsibility of the child or state agencies get involved, then it's those agencies that are making the decisions. Those countries have phones and lawyers, they could make contact with their children or friends/relatives and reunite. I don't think the country wants to purposely separate any family.

This is just one side of immigration and families, Caroline Espinosa did a study in 2008 that showed 60% of the men in many Mexican and Ecuador villages have left their family to emigrate (legally and illegally), add half a million in Thailand, at least 10 million in China, nine million in the Philippines, and 40,000 in Romania, and that's a lot of broken families. Many send money home to their family, many abandon them, and start a new family.

The article should not be attacking deportation, but state agencies and foster care. The small percentage is probably equal to the incarcerated population for all crimes.

This entire article manages to absolve the parents of any responsibility for the situation they themselves created in coming to the US illegally, in bringing their kids illegally, or in having kids here knowing that they themselves are deportable.

As for providing a Spanish-speaking translator in civil proceedings, such as the custody case, lady, it's up to you to get your own translator and your own lawyer as well.

This is a tragic story, and I'm sure there are many, but why does one side always seem to argue with anecdotal sob stories instead of rationally discussing policy?

Looks like the kid is in good hands. The law of the land must be kept, deporting the illegals are not easy on the government as well as the individuals that are illegals and foster parents- doing the right thing no matter how you look at it is not easy. Kudos to the foster parents and the authorities that are trying right the wrong!

His parents made this decision it should be no surprise even if it is sixteen years later.

This is easy. Deport the entire family. It is important to keep them together.

Sadly, there are many parents who choose to put their families at risk of separation. Many of these claim to taking steps to provide a better life for their families, but I find myself questioning whether any action that risks losing one's family is ever truly worth the perceived benefits.

It is important to note that this plight is not unique to illegal immigrants. Some parents resort to stealing in the name of providing a better life for their family. Others lie on tax returns and defraud the government. These actions can and do result in family separation as well.

I am saddened that the risk of losing one's family does not serve as a stronger deterrent in our world. Then again, given many emerging trends, I wish I could feel more surprised.

It is important for a great family to stay together. Ship the children off with Dad.

All illegals sent back to Mexico should be required to take their underage children with them. When the children become adults they then can choose to come back to the United States.

Foster care for children of adults breaking the law, has always been the way our justice system handles children.

From PEW: One in 100: Behind Bars in America 2008.

Ten percent of incarcerated mothers have a child in a foster home or other state care.

Immigrants need to respect the sanctity of our laws, then their parental rights will be treated with greater respect.

My grandparents were dirt poor and yet they found a way to obey the laws to bring my father here for a better future.

Re: "'We are not telling the government not to enforce the law,' said Emily Butera . . . ."

Yeah, you are. You and the rest of American liberals, particularly in the Obama administration.

Liberal, open-borders activists advocate flouting immigration laws in a desperate attempt to curry political favor with a demographic they hope to ensnare as the future of their movement, since that movement is rapidly losing relevance and currency.

But, it's not working. The only ones fooled by this sappy, cynical, "family-friendly" subterfuge -- performed by the most family-hostile American political troupe -- are the sophomoric sheeple already barricaded in the liberal fold.

Hint to liberals: Illegals come here because America is NOT a third-world cesspool of corruption and rule by violent oligarchs, rather than by law. Liberal actions that destroy the American dream and drive the Nation into the third world will not endear them to immigrants any more than to natives.

Latinos are not as stupid as you hope.

Mexico must indeed be the horible place the Mexicans say it is. Parents leave their children rather than take them with them back to Mexico. The boy in this story was born in Mexico. Yet his dad will do everything to leave his boy in the United States rather than take him to Mexico.

As sad as it is to leave a child behind, it all goes back to choices. It certainly isn't just an immigration problem. Parents make choices that result in being separated from their children all the time. Hard to understand why a parent would leave their children behind in foster care.

What kind of father or mother would leave their child in a country they have been deported from? I thought families were important to them. Some things are more important than money.

Yet another DN illegal immigrant sob story, they just keep piling them up. Forever absent from the pages of the DN are stories of the many American citizens and their children who are victims of illegal aliens, they don't count.The whole thing is sad on many levels on both sides and it is exactly what happens when politicians care more about what gets votes instead of what is the best policy for the country. We owe nothing to any of these people, the did it to themselves. Children of prisoners are victims of their parents actions as well. Where are the sob stories about them?
The law needs to be enforced vigorously to send a message to future border crossers who think the law doesn't apply and many of these stories will be avoided in the future. If you think we can't do it, you are wrong, Eisenhower deported 13 million Mexicans after the Korean war to make jobs for returning veterans, we don't lack the ability, our spineless self serving politicians lack the will. Deportation equals jobs for Americans/

Dad does not seem to be a very law abiding citizen. He enters this country illegally and, small detail, he does not pay his parking ticket.
Not impressed....