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Thursday, July 9, 2009

Immigration laws are breaking families apart, deporting too many parents with US-born children h

Roxroy Salmon, a Brooklyn father of five and community leader, is fighting deportation. His is not the first case and, unfortunately, it won't be the last.

A recent study by the Homeland Security Department conducted at the request of Rep. José Serrano (D-Bronx) showed a terrible reality: From 1998 to 2007, immigration authorities deported at least 108,434 parents of U.S.-citizen children.

Salmon, though, is not alone in his struggle to remain with his U.S. citizen wife and children.

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