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This one-year-old baby is just one of many cases of children facing deportation hearings without their families. The Associated Press reported that when one Guatemalan child was asked his age, he simply put up five fingers. Another girl, seven, just wanted to be reunited with her parents, even if it was in her home country they had desperately fled. Both children were “voluntarily deported” back to their dangerous countries — if you can really knowingly volunteer to do anything at such a young age.
Perhaps the most upsetting part of these child court cases is that these outrages are not at all rare and not new to our immigration policy. A Syracuse University study showed an estimated half of the 300,000 immigrant children ordered to court between 2005 and 2017 didn’t have legal representation — and the vast majority didn’t speak English.
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