[lbo-talk] 186,000 Deportations, 887,000 "Voluntary Departures"

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

<blockquote>The New York Times
<http://nytimes.com/2004/11/24/nyregion/24deport.html>
November 24, 2004
A Mother Deported, and a Child Left Behind
By NINA BERNSTEIN

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No one keeps track of exactly how many American children were left 
behind by the record 186,000 noncitizens expelled from the United 
States last year, or the 887,000 others required to make a "voluntary 
departure." But immigration experts say there are tens of thousands 
of children every year who lose a parent to deportation.

Officials at the Department of Homeland Security say they are simply 
enforcing laws adopted in 1996, which all but eliminated the 
discretion of immigration officers to consider family ties before 
enforcing an old order of removal.</blockquote>

Yoshie