What happens to children when their parents are deported from the United States? The Deportation of Innocence is a docum | dG1feHctbkhYMUpWR0U
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00:00Once upon a time, there was this little girl who was lost in the woods.
00:11She had to sleep in the woods.
00:13She was very hungry.
00:15One day she found a house.
00:17She didn't know that in the house there were three ugly witches, or that the house was
00:21haunted.
00:22She knocked on the door.
00:24One ugly witch opened it.
00:26The United States has never faced this kind of situation before.
00:54Immigration separated him from his little sister, and they started telling him that
01:01his little sister was going to get taken away from him.
01:03She was going to be adopted by another family.
01:06When both parents are deported, the children get put into foster homes.
01:13Rather quickly, they can be put up for adoption, because deportation is treated as if the parents
01:18have abandoned their children.
01:21He was almost an hour late.
01:24I had to pick him up at five, and I picked him up at six.
01:27When I got to school, there were already three patrols waiting for me.
01:31They took them away from me.
01:32They arrive at the house, they arrive at dawn, with an excess of violence.
01:36They saw that their father was put on the floor, they hit him on the head, and they don't
01:39even know why they are taking him away.
01:46My daughter was born.
01:47Her life has already begun here.
01:49She already has her friends from Iqueret.
01:53I don't even want to think about that, really.
01:57It would be fatal.
02:00I continue to question what the United States is going to do when all these American citizens,
02:05who are now infants, who are now minors, who do not have the ability to make decisions,
02:11understand, when they grow up, that their country took away from them the opportunity
02:16to grow up with their parents.
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