In a recent article in The Dayton Daily News on September 5, 2017 an article entitled “Fate of Teen with Disability in Limbo as Mom Faces Deportation,” an immigrant from Morocco who immigrated to the US in 1995 is now living in fear of deportation. This is despite her son having a disability.   

Her son has “Down Syndrome.” He speaks in short sentences.  The mother’s other children have stated proudly, “She’s doing what every mother should always do, care for her children. Now Immigration wants to take that away from us! Why?”  They added, “We are law abiding citizens. We have never committed any crime. We can’t take him, and we can’t leave him.”  

Here’s another case, in an article written by Frank Kineavy from Reuters, entitled “Parents of Children With Disabilities Fear Deportation.” 

Latin American immigrants from Mexico face the same dilemma Rafael and Sonia of Santa Cruz, California face. The Santa Cruzes have been doing whatever it takes to ensure that their 8-year-old daughter, Abril, a U.S. citizen, is receiving the best care she can possibly get. Abril suffers from cerebral palsy as well as epilepsy, and every breath she takes she risks choking on her own saliva or phlegm. Her everyday care requires at least one of her parents to be by her side at all times. They must use a suction machine to help her swallow properly. Abril was born here, but her parents were not. If Sonia and Rafael are forced to go back to Mexico they fear that Abril will not receive the care she so desperately needs. “If we go to Mexico and we have to bring her, it is certain she will not live for much time.” 

Attorneys Taylor Lee & Associates LLC posted in a blog on Friday, July 28, 2017 that stated: 

Immigrant parents often worry about these things. 

Raising children is often a rewarding, joyful, yet tremendously trying experience, even for the average person, not to mention if your child happens to need special attention and care in order to survive. Daily life and fulfilling children's basic needs are often wrought with additional struggle for immigrant parents who worry about the following. 

The parents' undocumented statuses will be discovered as they seek medical assistance for their special needs children. 

No one would be available to care for their children if both mother and father are deported. 

They would have to decide between taking their children with them upon removal or leaving them behind in the United States where there would likely be an increased chance of survival due to better medical care. 

They also worry whether there is somewhere to turn for support to apply for lawful resident status, and whether that's a good idea in their particular situations. 

One has to ask this question: In a country which allows drugs, allows butchering dictators who have violated human rights in their countries and have committed murderous acts towards their people, HOW CAN THIS HAPPEN? Why waste tax player dollars on hurting people with disabilities, people who have never committed any acts, people who have never hurt anyone!  

Seems President Trump, who has a nephew with a disability,has no heart, no intelligence, no understanding. This is a violation of human/civil rights! This is a dictatorship! A disgraceful act and a disgraceful president!