A Second grade child at a Silver Spring, Maryland school has managed to revive a debate about mixed status families after speaking with Michelle Obama after the first lady visited the school the young girl was studying at.
Child speaking to Michelle Obama says her mum has no papers to stay in the US
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The child who spoke to Michelle Obama asked why United States President, Barrack Obama was “taking away everybody that doesn’t have papers?”
The First lady replied “Well that’s something we have to work on, so that people… with the write kind of papers can be here”
The child interrupted Obama to say “But my mum doesn’t have any papers,”
“We have to work on that, we have to fix that, everybody have to work together in congress to make sure that happens (Papers for stay in the US granted)”
Mixed status families is a status used for families in which at least one of the children of the family is US born but one of the parents are illegal immigrants.
The problem is serious in the US as there was an estimated 4 million Hispanic children born in the US with at least one parent staying in the country as an illegal immigrant according to the Pew Hispanic Center. This figure is also growing with over 300,000 children being born into families Hispanic families with at least one parent staying in the US illegally.
The children of the mixed status families are also affected in a negative way as studies have found that the children are more emotional and less successful in education and financially.
Children born in the US are automatically granted citizenship unless they are born to families of foreign diplomats but some critics want a constitutional amendment which will change the law for this.
Parents who are deported usually leave their children and spouse behind in the United States where there is better living conditions and more chance of success from their native lands.
Deportation officers have promised not the send the young girl’s mother back to her native land, one woman said “This kid has basically guaranteed that her mother is not going to be deported under any circumstances.”
It is estimated that 100,000 children in the US have seen a parent being deported between 1997 and 2007.
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