{"id":636596,"date":"2018-10-18T10:10:31","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T16:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=636596"},"modified":"2018-10-19T12:24:50","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T18:24:50","slug":"tens-of-thousands-of-deported-parents-have-u-s-citizen-kids-ice-data-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2018\/10\/tens-of-thousands-of-deported-parents-have-u-s-citizen-kids-ice-data-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Tens of thousands of deported parents have U.S. citizen kids, ICE data shows"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Heath Haussamen \/ NMPolitics.net<\/p>

A scene from the U.S.\/Mexico border. In the foreground, behind a barbed-wire fence, U.S. Border Patrol agents speak with each other in El Paso, Texas. Across the Rio Grande, in the background, is Cuidad Ju\u00e1rez, Mexico.<\/p><\/div>\n

This post is part of the Center for Public Integrity’s new community-driven reporting project, Ask Immigration Decoded. Submit your questions, and we’ll answer the most popular questions on our blog,\u00a0Immigration Decoded<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

In this post, we’re answering a question we received from Diane Falkowski: How many immigrants without criminal backgrounds have been deported, leaving U.S.-citizen spouses and U.S. citizen children behind?<\/em><\/p>\n

As of July 2010,\u00a0Congress<\/a>\u00a0began requiring U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, to ask people slated for deportation if they are parents of minor children who are\u00a0U.S. citizens<\/a>. Those questioned provide the information on a voluntary basis, and it is compiled into reports submitted twice a year to Congress. According to three recent years\u2019 worth of data reviewed by the Center for Public Integrity, ICE deported a total of 87,351 people between 2015 and the end of 2017 who claimed to have at least one U.S.- citizen child.<\/p>\n

In 2015, ICE counted 31,411 parents of minor citizen children deported. The number declined slightly to 28,860 in 2016. The number declined again to 27,080 in 2017. In the second half of 2017,\u00a0a report shows<\/a>, the number of deported people identifying themselves as parents of citizen children increased by 2,152 over the first half of 2017.<\/p>\n

ICE officials said there is no data available yet for 2018.<\/p>\n

Although ICE does issue reports containing estimates of deportees with criminal records, there is no publicly available data to cross-reference to determine how many deported parents of citizen children have or don\u2019t have criminal records.<\/p>\n