Elvira tried this through her son and lost, but this suit goes farther, asking for a freeze on deportations 'until comprehensive immigration reform is passed'.
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http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/15679891.htm?source=rss&channel=miamiherald_news
"The lawsuit, filed by a coalition of local immigrant advocacy groups, argues that the constitutional rights of those young citizens are being violated by their families' precarious status, and that deportations of the parents of U.S. citizen children should stop until Congress passes comprehensive immigration reform.
''When the government deports the parents, they tell the citizen children that they can go back with their parents, or stay and be wards of the state, and that's not a choice,'' said Alfonso Oviedo, president of American Fraternity, also known as the Nicaraguan Fraternity. ``They are being treated as garbage, not as U.S. citizens.''
2006-10-04
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