When parents are deported, citizen children fight to survive

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Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010
By Erynn Elizabeth Reitmayer
Cronkite News21

More than 5 million children live in the United States with at least one undocumented parent. Nearly 75 percent of those children are U.S. citizens. When one or both parents are deported, children often have to choose between living with their immediate family in another country or living without them in the United States.

This report by Arizona State University’s News21 incubator tells stories behind these numbers.

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