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Title: The Modern Deportation Regime and Mexican Families

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Publication Year: 2013

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Abstract: In 2011, the United States deported a record high of 391,953 foreign-born people (Preston 2012). In the same year, Immigration Control and Enforcement detained a record number of immigrants, 429,000 (Preston 2012). An even greater number have been returned to their country of origin through voluntary departure, which included 476,000 in 2010 and 580,000 in 2009 (U.S. Department of Homeland Security 2010a, 2010b). Contrary to popular perception, deportees and returnees are typically not criminal offenders (Human Rights Watch 2009). Many live in families, with spouses and children; others have family members in their home country who depend on them. More than one hundred thousand of those deported between 1998 and 2007 were parents of U.S.-born citizens (U.S. Department of Homeland Security 2009.). Today, more than three-quarters of the children of immigrants are U.S. citizens and one-third live in mixed-status families (Capps and Fortuny 2006; Fortuny et al. 2009). Contemporary deportation policies potentially affect millions of children living in the United States.

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Authors: Dreby, Joanna

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Volume Title: Constructing Illigality in America

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Publisher Location: England

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Migration and Immigration

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