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Undocumented immigrants with citizen kids

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    ICE: Since 2010 more than 200,000 deportees say have U.S. citizen children

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Numbers recently released by immigration and customs enforcement so that since 2010.

More than 200000.

It's kind of like it's tearing the family apart.

This'll pass -- woman who asked to be called Samantha Rio is very to a Mexican man who had been living here illegally.

He had two children together and over here though he was deported to -- is.

Kid.

-- from not having their -- around.

Mean just not having my husband around not being gonna have a companionship.

Immigration advocates say change is an order for families like Rios they think in order to keep families together and in a peaceful frame of mind.

That they should.

Be given.

Up some kind of permanent residency whether that's a green card or permanent worker -- -- One critic argues that special privileges should not be given to parents just because they're kids are US citizens.

That it would create a blue pool for people tried to jump in front of the line to immigrate to the US.

We can all sympathize with the idea that somebody who comes illegally would like to improve that -- their children's opportunities.

At maybe that's part of the motivation but we have laws we have -- system and ice spokeswoman says the deportees to claim to have American children.

Had criminal histories or repeated immigration violations.

And -- husband as one of them.

Years ago she was arrested for involvement in -- -- robbery.

It's completely different man who has matured and how the family has kids taking a father -- parent -- from their children.

It does have an impact on the -- And it's not fair.

Real hopes to work with ice to get her husband back home in El Paso Patrick Manning fox news with.

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