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Children Are Paying the Price for Bush's Deportation Policies

Thousands of children are dumped into squalor after being deported from the United States.
August 19, 2008  |  
 
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We've already seen, here in the States, the travesties created by the Republican push to deport illegal immigrants: police-state tactics, the bastardization of justice, the destruction of families, the inhuman treatment of cancer victims. But that's just the beginning of the ugliness.

Then there's what happens afterwards -- particularly to the children. A La Jornada report (translated; see original here) gives the basic outline:

David Neiwert is a freelance journalist based in Seattle, and the assistant editor of Crosscut.

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