By Joseph Nevins, New America Media, Commentary
June 21, 2009
As families celebrate Father’s Day, consider the case of Roxroy Salmon. The father of four U.S.-born children, Salmon has lived in the United States for more than 30 years. Yet the Department of Homeland Security now threatens to deport him to Jamaica, a country where he has not resided for decades, due to minor drug convictions from more than 19 years ago for which he served no time. This would effectively deny his children their father by permanently exiling him from his family and their common homeland.
Salmon’s story is hardly exceptional. Each year the federal government deports tens of thousands of non-citizens, many of them with U.S. citizen children, to countries to which they often have tenuous ties. By doing this, the federal government seriously injures children and families, and produces large numbers of a particular type of refugee. [...]
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http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=5d6d2f1d4d7f88a42458324fbf903e28
It is also on Common Dreams:
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/06/21-0
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