Children Alone and Scared, Fighting Deportation. Nina Bernstein.
by Bernstein, Nina; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2005Article 33Family. Publisher: New York Times, 2004ISSN: 1522-3213;.Subject(s): Asylum | Deportation | Emigration and immigration law | Immigrant children | Immigrants -- Services for | Juvenile detentionDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Once a month, in a windowless courtroom at 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan, children are summoned before a judge who can decide whether they will be removed from the United States. One afternoon, there is a Haitian girl of 17 who escaped her father's killers; another time, a 15-year-old Ecuadorian who came 3,000 miles to earn money for his ailing mother. There is even a disabled boy of 5 from Morocco who lacks the visa needed to stay here with his parents. Some fled here for their lives, while others were simply stranded. All have stumbled into a complex intersection of government interests after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, as a crackdown to protect national security collides with a long tradition of protecting juveniles." (NEW YORK TIMES) This article examines how the events of Sept. 11, 2001, have changed the way the U.S. deals "with administering immigration benefits and services."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Children Alone and Scared, Fighting Deportation, March 28, 2004; pp. 1+.
"Once a month, in a windowless courtroom at 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan, children are summoned before a judge who can decide whether they will be removed from the United States. One afternoon, there is a Haitian girl of 17 who escaped her father's killers; another time, a 15-year-old Ecuadorian who came 3,000 miles to earn money for his ailing mother. There is even a disabled boy of 5 from Morocco who lacks the visa needed to stay here with his parents. Some fled here for their lives, while others were simply stranded. All have stumbled into a complex intersection of government interests after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, as a crackdown to protect national security collides with a long tradition of protecting juveniles." (NEW YORK TIMES) This article examines how the events of Sept. 11, 2001, have changed the way the U.S. deals "with administering immigration benefits and services."
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