For sometimes now the department of immigration and customers enforcement has been deporting immigrants that are living in the country illegally, even those that have not committed any crimes. The deportation process has proved to have a lot of adverse effects to the families that have been separated. Discussed here are some of the consequences of the deportation process.
The increase of children that are raised by adoptive parents is on the rise. This has happened to those kids whose parents have been proved to be illegal immigrants and they are deported back to their country. Some of their kids that are citizens in the country end up in foster care. Being brought up by other parents that are not their biological parents is traumatic because they are separated from their real family. The second negative effect of deportation is that there are many single parents these days. If one parent is deported one family is left to deal with all the needs of the family. This is a devastating experience more so in this hard economic times where both parents need to chip in and provide for the family. The parent that is left behind is also left with the task of dealing with the immigration services and bring back their partners back in the country.
The third effect is that these families have to endure financial constraints since one of the breadwinner has left then. These days money is not easy to come along. Hence when one of the family members leaves the other partner has to find a way to make ends meet. The other effect is that people are left with the stress of finding for the family by themselves. Those kids that have experienced the deportation of their parents are always afraid that they are going to be deported to. This constant fear is not healthy because it causes anxiety and depression to the kids.
People that have seen their families deported are usually hesitant to ask for help from law enforcers. When they are facing a threat they are afraid of calling help from the law enforcers because they feat they will do the same to their families. Families that have experienced a family member being deported are usually afraid of seeking medical help because they are afraid of exposing sensitive information that might lead them to deportation. As a result, most of them end up developing severe health conditions.
Children from families that have family members that have been deported either a family member or a sibling are more likely to perform poorly in school. These people are also likely to suffer from some of the severe mental health disorders such as depression.