Detention and Deportation Will Open Foster Care Floodgates

If President Trump follows through on his campaign promise to deport as many as 2 million to 3 million undocumented immigrants, we know that many of those being deported will be parents of children born in the United States. Consequently, child welfare advocates fear that the surge will prompt a spike in foster care admissions for those children left "abandoned." What else is supposed to happen when a child gets home from school to find that his or her parents have been taken away?

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