By Huiyu Yin
The US President Barack Obama recently announced his
decision to suspend the deportation of nearly 5 million unauthorized
immigrants. Besides the political and legal aspects of the debate, Human Rights
Watch suggests that the
plan is deficient in key respects. It is true that the plan “to keep
immigrants and their families from being broken apart by deportation is a
strike against arbitrary cruelty”, said by Antonio Ginatta, a US advocacy
director at Human Rights Watch. Other abusive practices against immigrants are
unaddressed. For instance, the plan did not provide protection against deportation
to immediate relatives of young US citizens with deferred deportation status. Human
Rights Watch has recently
documented how significant numbers of parents of US citizen children –
100,000 in the years 2011 and 2012 – are apprehended, summarily deported and
criminalized at the border. The plan is a first step in the right direction,
but the need for a more lasting and comprehensive solution remains.
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