The plight of American born children forced to reside outside of the United States because of their dependent and minority age statuses, begs the question of whether or not these children, if raised in third world countries like Mexico, Nicaragua, or Columbia, can ever achieve the promise of the American dream upon return to the United States, which has, in their absence, become foreign to them, and they foreign amongst their peer group?
The subject of immigration, especially that which moves daily across the Mexican-American border, is an emotional and tense issue, and one into which a new breath of life is breathed during every presidential election. There is no denying the economic impact of illegal immigration on the United States; it is a serious problem. This, however, does not make it acceptable to wreak potential economic havoc on a U.S. born citizen that is, on an individual level, just as economically devastating.
A two-year study conducted by the National Academy of Sciences found that Americans that illegal immigration does not have an "overall" impact on the U.S. economy, and had "little negative impact on the income and job opportunities of most native-born Americans (Simon, 1999, xxv)." Thusly, the impact that is made on the life of a native-born American forced to reside outside of the United States by virtue of the fact that his or her parent was deported, seems an
Gregory Rodriguez's (2008) book, Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans and Vagabonds, chronicles the history of the American campaign against illegal immigration, and the residual affects of that campaign on the U.S. born children of illegal immigrants who were deported with their young American-born children. This book, and other existing works and research on the statistical data associated with the deportation of American-born children will provide the basis for support of the thesis that children born in the U.S. are being, perhaps even illegally, deprived of their Constitutional rights as U.S. citizens. The research being proposed here will attempt to prove that these children are being deprived of legal representation that would foster their best interests as American citizens. The research being proposed here will examine whether or not there is a political link between the children being deported in order to appease voter bias.
Reference List
Rodriguez, Gregory (2008). Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans and Vagabonds: Mexican
Immigration and the . Random House Publishing, New York, NY. Book.
Simon, Julian Lincoln (1999). The Economic Consequences of Immigration, University
of Michigan. Book.
