The Problems Faced By Undocumented Immigrant Parents And Children In The United States

People migrate to the United State because they run from all different type of problems such as religious and political persecution, ethnic cleansing, human trafficking and slavery, extortion, kidnapping, mass murders, terrorism, forced conscription, rape, and other gender-based violence; they come all the way from their homes to find better homes here. As they try to recover from the problem they left at their home country, they are introduced to new problems here where they become illegal, because everything in the United States needs documents, for example, if they want to rent a house, the landlord will ask for social security or identification card which these immigrants do not have them and then the situation will force them to be homeless.

The number of immigrant mothers and children coming through southern borders has been progressively increasing since 2011, but last year’s summer it had gone through the roof. Some compare the situation to the European refugee crisis following World War II, because those huge numbers of immigrant today are similar to the time in World War II when people’s homes were destroyed, and they had to run for a safer place where they can be living in better life. The last time Congress proposed immigration change was back in 1986. The government made an assumption that the reform they made to the law will put to a stop to illegal immigration into the United States. But the opposite of what they intended happened. The number of unauthorized immigrants living in the country raised, from an estimated five million in 1986 to about eleven million today.

La Posada has formed as an intimate resource for Harlingen’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility, which is overloaded with illegal migrants, many of them are mother and kids. Since fathers are not around, mothers have to take both roles; taking care of the children, sending them to school, going outside to work and on top of that, they also look or seek for a legal document from the government so that they can get more opportunity. Undocumented Immigrant who suffers most of the time in the United State are families where the head of the house is single mother, they live in hard lives as they balance to new communities and new cultures. Some of these new issues affect their health status; getting to a health care services is a really hard for them, different educational system, jobs, housing from their home countries, feel no one understands them, prejudice, and basic cultural differences that shape the capacity of the new undocumented immigrant to be healthier in America. The thing that can solve all these problems is getting a legal document from the government.

Coming to United States if you do not have any approved from the government it is illegal. So also staying in the U.S. without illegal document or after visa or stay permeation has expired, then that means you are totally banned from staying in the United States. That will make you violate the phase of legal entry to make your stay illegal. The U.S. immigration law gives zero to a small quantity of options to go from being an illegal to legally documented immigrant in U.S. permanent resident (with a green card). This will most likely happen when someone gets married to U.S. Citizen, served in right-minded and on active or once be duty with the U.S. Armed Forces during one of the major wars or conflicts that the U.S. fought, and one last one can be to apply for a chance to stay in the U.S. if qualify for asylum and apply in one year of entry or the expiration of legal document. The last one is one most single mother and their children qualify for, but before that they have to provide or show they have been treated badly, or fear future hostility in their home country based on membership in a particular social group, nationality, religion, political opinion, or race.

While they wait for their asylum to be approved, they work, they will also move up in the north where they are a lot of opportunity to get jobs and help from the Local/Federal government, and they will end up living in homeless shelters. New language is hard and can act as foundational issue for those immigrants, because it stops them to make relation in the communities. It prevents them from day to day chore like taking a bus or going to the market for shopping and grocery, it is very overwhelming. Some of the undocumented families say they are unserviceable and cannot ask easy question people that work in their local grocery store and this made them feel really terrible. The typical day look like, wake up early in the morning prepare the children for school, when the kid rides the school bus, mother will leave for work and talk with someone to help them get their children off from the bus if they are not available.

Since those children live in homeless shelters, they will end up going to school that get less funding, which means need of the immigrant child will not be met because they are no or weak programs to help those kids. It is easy and are in danger of failing at school, Connectors who work with migrant said “the children of these families face many barriers to success in schools. They explained that these children move from state to state, rarely remaining in a school for the entire year.” They said “high school is particularly hard for these children. Because of feelings displacement, high school students are more likely to join gangs and, according to this connector, about half drop out of school by the age of 16.

Report says that parent regret that they are unable to help their children with homework. Part of the reason is because children get schoolwork in English. Child go home to the parents who don’t speak the language, so that kid don’t get help and they’re behind the next year. Most parents particularly upset about their inability to assist their children with school-related work. Many said they felt “helpless” when it comes to helping children with schoolwork. While some said they have tried both print and electronic dictionaries as well as other aides, after a while this grow irritating, and the child is on their own. In some cases, it is not so much the language barrier but also the lack of education of the parent. Kids in the communities that live in low-income homes or homeless shelters, they are not doing very well. A lot of it is because the immigrant family did not have that education themselves. It is not that they are not capable or don’t care, they just don’t have the resources to help tutor them when they fall down through the split, said a connector immigrant in Orange County. The majority of the mothers develop trauma that is being centered by the all work that they do to bring their children and work up themselves for better life in the United States. Once they get legal document reported says their financial issues will be solved, they will be able to get medical treatment, and better houses, better jobs. Virginia Commonwealth University approved “that trauma level will go done after documentation.”