Over seven million U.S. children live with at least one noncitizen parent — and 80 percent of these children are US-born citizens. Close to 5 million US-citizen children live with an unauthorized immigrant parent, potentially subject to deportation. Research has shown that the deportation of a parent has serious deleterious effects on families—emotional distress, behavioral […]
State Immigration Enforcement Policies: How they Impact Low-Income Households
- Post author Heather Koball, Julia Gelatt, Hamutal Bernstein, Charmaine Runes, Eleanor Pratt
- Project
- Publication Type Report
- Post date May 1, 2017