Sentence examples for of undocumented parents from inspiring English sources

Children of undocumented parents are insured in lower numbers than other children even when they qualify for public insurance.

In recent years conservative pundits and politicians are assailing the 14th Amendment because it provides protections for children of undocumented parents.

And because more than a third of undocumented parents have a least one American child, ending birthright citizenship would greatly increase the number of undocumented people in the country.

In 2014 a Republican state senator from Chattanooga, Todd Gardenhire, easily passed a law clarifying that Tennessee's public universities can admit American-born children of undocumented parents at the same discounted rate as other local residents.

Second, most American-born children of undocumented parents are not "anchor babies"; most of the parents have lived and worked in the United States for years before having their first child.

Now, Trump is pushing a plan to build a wall along the Mexican border, deport undocumented immigrants, and deprive the children of undocumented parents the right to U.S. citizenship.

Obama's expansion of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and launch of a new program for undocumented parents of U.S. citizens or legal permanent residents, called Deferred Action for Parents of Americans (DAPA), could provide millions of undocumented immigrants temporary relief from deportation and access to work permits.

"There's a tendency to blame Republicans for the lack of implementation of DAPA -- and for sure, they've played a role in that," said Tania Unzueta, an organizer with the #Not1More campaign, using a shortened name for the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans policy, which offers deportation relief for undocumented parents of U.S. citizens.

One part of that policy, a program called Deferred Action for Parents of Americans, or DAPA, offers work authorization and deportation relief to undocumented parents of U.S. citizens who have lived in the country for five years and who pass a background check.

In November, Obama announced an expansion of that program and debuted a new policy that does the same for undocumented parents of U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents.

To the Editor: Peter H. Shuck suggests conditioning the citizenship of children born to undocumented parents on having a "genuine connection" to American society.