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After Losing Freedom, Some Immigrants Face Loss of Custody of Their Children

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

After Losing Freedom, Some Immigrants Face Loss of Custody of Their Children By GINGER THOMPSON- NY Times Published: April 22, 2009 CARTHAGE, Mo. ? When immigration agents raided a poultry processing plant near here two years ago, they had no idea a little American boy named Carlos would be swept up in the operation. One of the 136 illegal immigrants detained in the raid was Carlos?s mother, Encarnación Bail Romero, a Guatemalan. A year and a half after she went to jail, a county court terminated Ms. Bail?s rights to her child on grounds of abandonment. Carlos, now 2, was adopted by a local couple. In his decree, Judge David C. Dally of Circuit Court in Jasper County said the couple made a comfortable living, had rearranged their lives and work schedules to provide Carlos a stable home, and had support from their extended family...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 23, 2009 (boomark / email).