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New Book “The Forgotten Children of Immigration” Highlights Negative Impact of Deportation
A journalist and a writer, both Mexicans who have lived many years in Colorado, present the “forgotten children” of immigration in the United States with a work written in both English and Spanish, and which gathers together the testimonies of immigrants’ children.
Their book “Broken: La Cara Infantil de la Inmigración/The Forgotten Children of Immigration,” launched this week, tells 18 immigration stories that have as their leading characters children who have suffered the deportation of one or both of their parents, as one of its authors, journalist German Gonzalez, told Efe.
“The intention of these stories is to inform people about the terrible problems that millions of children and their families are going through, as well as to raise awareness among the political class so that once and for all they pass a comprehensive immigration overhaul that stops families from being broken up,” writer Arturo Garcia added.
By means of contacts in Denver and surrounding areas, Gonzalez and Garcia managed to win the confidence of a number of immigrants and their children, so that finally close to 20 of those families allowed their kids to tell their stories.
Gonzalez believes these stories echo “broken voices that reveal the sad reality that enshrouds these youngsters as a result of the implacable deportations” of parents “without papers.”
According to the Executive Office for Immigration Review, an agency of the U.S. Department of Justice, some 5,200 cases of deportation or removal of immigrants were processed in Colorado in the year 2013, while around 7,500 cases are still pending.
For Gonzalez, these statistics “do not show us the human side of history,” something that can only be achieved “by listening to the cries of the children.”
Published in Latino Daily News
Source: http://www.hispanicallyspeakingnews.com/latino-daily-news/details/new-book-the-forgotten-children-of-immigration-highlights-negative-impact-o/31376#When:03:27:47Z
