Child-Separation Dire Deportation Warning; What to Do

WASHINGTON - May 3, 2025 - PRLog -- This morning's Washington Post joins many other media in issuing a dire warnings that, once again, there is a serious risk of children being separated from their parents as part of the new deportation crackdown:
As Trump Rushes to Deport Migrants, Many Worry Children's Rights Are Being Violated A Growing Number of Cases — (https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/05/03/trump-deportation-children-separation/)
Including A 2-Year-Old Kept In U.S. Custody After Her Mother Was Deported To Venezuela — Reignites Fears Of Child Separation Policies. (https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/05/03/trump-deportation-children-separation/)

Several all-too-real cases have raised intense fears in immigrant advocacy circles about the potential return of family separation, when more than 5,000 children were separated from their parents at the border during the first Trump administration, and reclassified as unaccompanied minors with no trail of government records tying them back to their parents.

But with advanced planning and clear legal documentation, these and similar situations might be avoidable, argues public interest law professor John Banzhaf, who suggests that these three situations may only be the tiny tip of a much larger iceberg - those few cases out of many which just happened to become widely reported.

With efforts to deport not only illegal aliens - but also many legal residents with green cards or with visas which are rapidly being revoked - the problem of what should be done with children born in the U.S. - who as U.S. citizens cannot lawfully, be deported - is going to arise again and again.

So the time for parents, who are themselves at risk of being involuntarily deported, to decide what to do with their citizen-children should be now  They should not wait for a very brief telephone conversation once a vulnerable parent has been unexpectedly detained and facing an immediate flight to a foreign country or on nothing more than undocumented verbal requests to immigration authorities, says Banzhaf, who recommends a tactic which he perfected and which worked well in the past.

He is encouraging immigration and family law attorneys to take the actions suggested above to help any clients who might be at any risk or being deported.

Banzhaf has also suggested that legal clinics produce and distribute over the Internet an app to help foreign students understand and better protect their rights:
Here's How Universities Can And Should Protect Their Foreign Students * * * A Cell Phone App Is Much Better and Less Expensive Than "Know Your Rights" Cards (http://prsync.com/george-washington-university/heres-how-...)

To be forewarned is to be forearmed, Banzhaf reminds all those who might be at risk.

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