Posted on April 4, 2010.
What is your opinion of juvenile illegal aliens who are caught? If the laws and standards are illegal aliens of all ages?
Some of these children are running away to come here, what should be done with them?
Why all the parents leave their children in a detention center and not appear? What is your opinion of this?
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Depending on age and the only immigrants see a softer side of detention
Dobbs Ferry, NY - Jose was 14 when he left his home in Oaxaca, Mexico, and paid a smuggler $ 1,200 for him to slip across the border. He made it to Phoenix and began a long odyssey and familiar, scratching a living, first picking oranges in Florida, then cooking in restaurants in Connecticut.
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Times Topics: Immigration and emigration | Health and Social Services DepartmentBut upset her modest existence in March after being arrested for speeding in Connecticut, and police discovered he had no permit drive. Finally, officials determined that it was the United States illegally and was detained by the Department of Homeland Security. Because Jose told a judge he was 21, he was detained in a detention center for adults in Massachusetts.
After the brother of Jose, with the help of the Mexican government has been able to prove to immigration officers that Jose was only 17, he was transferred in April to a shelter for immigrant youth in the county Westchester.
Jose case represents one of the most challenging aspects of the immigration debate: how to treat some 7,200 unaccompanied minors apprehended in the United States each year.
Jose, whose name was withheld because of his age, was arrested at the Children's Village in Dobbs Ferry, one of 41 facilities across the country contracted by the Ministry of Health and Social Services to take unaccompanied minors together until they are allowed to stay in the United States or are deported. (Jose finally returned to Mexico voluntarily.)
Despite an alarm system and locks, conditions in the Tudor-style bungalow at Children's Village where inmates are young and live in great improvements, immigrant advocates say the federal detention centers where these unaccompanied minors used to be held.
The housing of juvenile detainees in the same place as adults, often without access to education, adequate medical care or translators, led a class action in 2001. Accordingly, Congress in 2003 shifted the responsibility for unaccompanied minors, immigration officials at the Office of Refugee Resettlement, part of Health and Human Services.
Besides the separation of juveniles from adults, the Board has established standards for the reception of minors in less restrictive environments, while offering a variety of social services. Among other things, internal security agents are required to take all unaccompanied minors they apprehend a juvenile facility, usually within 24 hours.
The new procedures have created some tension between health and social services and Homeland Security, which believes that standards under the law should apply equally to all illegal immigrants, regardless of age.
What I would say to other children in Mexico, is that life is hard in the U.S., he added. "You do not have your mother and your father to support you. If you do not work, you do not eat. When you're old enough to know what you do, you can come." But some kids will not listen. "
We must respect the law. They even came you said there are many crazy stories in the streets of major cities in Mexico. The United States badly needs a Mexico-language radio station that tells the truth, and tells the children to stay at home ... jobs are hard and things will get tougher for them.
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