Yet all of them have been forced to live outside the country, five because they were deported from the US and the remainder because they were made to feel so uncomfortable and frustrated by growing hostility in their home states that they did what Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential candidate, suggested and "self-deported".
One study suggests that many of these immigrants left the USA altogether rather than moved to other states, perhaps because they were deported (Amuedo-Dorantes and Lozano 2014).
Instead, several other graduate students between July and October interviewed people in Mexico City, Guadalajara and Monterrey who had returned to the country either voluntarily or because they were deported.
But has he given himself the chance to hear from an immigrant soldier, an immigrant grandmother, an immigrant doctoral candidate, each one who has loved ones he can no longer embrace because they were deported or remain in detention?
More than 550 separated children remain in government custody, and 366 parents remain outside the U.S. because they were deported without their kids, according to the government's most recent data.
However, he urged officials to focus on the 711 children who remain separated after the government deemed their parents ineligible because they were deported, the government was unable to find them in the United States or the parent failed a background check.
Mr Williams has since launched a legal bid for the freedom of detainees claiming their detention is unlawful because they were deported from Australia to PNG against their will; that their detention is arbitrary and indefinite; and that conditions in the centre are inhumane.
One is a Mexican illegal immigrant in Corona, Queens; Ms. Dinnerstein said her client's abusive boyfriend, who has a green card, told the woman that she could not tell the police about the beatings because they would deport her.
First told me that there was no need because they would be deported soon.
If she then imposes a TEO, the individual can't get back into the country unless the home secretary issues a permit - or they have no choice because they've been deported home.
