"I need my papa!" That's what a five-year old Mexican child said to her mother, according to the Washington Post. Her father had been deported. How to explain to a small child why your father isn't around, and why you may not be seeing him for a long while?
Some will not unreasonably say "I need my papa" is but an anecdote, and they would be correct, but add enough of them up...The Washington Post reports that the majority of deportees are males, and compared to past deportation efforts, those incarcerated before being sent away (sometimes to countries they're not from) aren't criminals as was normally the case in the past. As evidenced by ICE searches at places of work, the immigrants are being taken away simply because they lack papers.
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