The Emotional Cost of Parental Deportation

As of 2017, an estimated 4.5 million U.S. citizen children had at least one undocumented parent. For these children, the possibility that their parents could face immigration enforcement, including deportation, had significant effects on their well-being, research by Lauren Gulbas and Luis Zayas found.

Gulbas and Zayas interviewed 83 children, divided into three categories. All of the children themselves were U.S. citizens, with thirty-four living in the U.S. with at least one undocumented parent...