They were being deported, it says, because Armenian revolutionaries were siding with Russia against the Ottomans during the first world war.
When Congress passed sweeping legislation in 1996 mandating that all immigrants who had been convicted of crimes be deported, it said it intended to rid the country of even legal immigrants who had committed crimes.
The police usually have enough to do, and if immigrants are afraid to talk to police for fear of being deported, it can cripple a department's effectiveness in immigrant communities.
And once you're deported, it's awfully hard to get back in.
For families in which one member has been deported, it begins to seem as if the entire family was cast out of the United States.
Though his plan would not have affected parents such as Sanchez, who have already been deported, it would have offered legal protections to parents who remain in the country illegally.
"When his dad was being deported, it caused a weird introspective situation where Daniel was losing his dad, but as a dad he's thinking 'I'm going to be losing my son,'" Cortes said.
Instead of grabbing my shit and heading home, I ended up sitting in a cold, vacant back room at LAX, waiting to be deported (it's a long story) and crying uncontrollably thinking about what was going to happen to me.
It is possible that after his state is stabilised, he would be deported – it depends on the case".
Although the Trump administration has said its focus is deporting criminals, it routinely detains other undocumented immigrants it encounters as well ― Dreamers among them. .
