US deporting children of parents allowed to stay

*Here’s a consequence of the so called undocumented minor border crisis. The government allows the parents to stay, but their children must be deported. Seems we’re looking at the wrong place for the real crisis. VL

By Maria Sacchetti, The Boston Globe

LYNN — When powerful earthquakes rocked El Salvador in 2001, the US government told Carlos Ramos it was unsafe to go home. Officials gave him and thousands of other immigrants work permits, and a reason to stay in America by renewing those permits year after year.

Now the same federal agency that gave Ramos permission to stay is planning to deport his teenage son.

The boy, also named Carlos, was caught crossing the southern border after fleeing gang violence in El Salvador in 2012, too late to apply for the same permit that federal officials granted to his parents. He is the only family member here without permission, but immigration officials have repeatedly refused to halt his deportation.

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