I caught a glimpse of the CNN special, Latino in America last night and it showed a side of immigration deportation that I've never seen.
Children are being sent to deportation detention camps in America. Children, as young as 3-years-old to 17 years are being held and tried before a judge, often times not represented. The results: children are being forced to go back to the 'home', a place they've escaped.
In 2008 there were as estimated total of 7,200 kids that were detained in camps like the "Boys Town Children's Village." Some looking for a better way of life, some just searching for their families.
CNN is calling this 'immigration limbo'. The kids are getting food and shelter, but many fear they are falling behind education while being held in these camps, as education is limited.
Is this right? Take away the US immigration laws for a second, are we as a mankind taking these laws to the extreme? Shouldn't these kids have a voice, and shouldn't it be heard?
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