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Some 100,000 Mexican children deported from US in 2008

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-01-19 11:45

MEXICO CITY -- Nearly 100,000 Mexican children were deported from the United States in 2008, authorities said on Sunday.

The children came back to Mexico without any legal or physical protection, the Migratory Issues of the Partido de Revolucionario Institucional said at the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of parliament.

In many cases, the deported ones would be captured by human traffickers and illegally reentered the United States, according to the report.

Deputies said that the most worrisome situation is the lack of effective and safe repatriation programs, as well as necessary support to the disadvantaged groups of people, when children and women, many of whom were unwed mothers, are often abandoned at the Mexican border without financial or legal resources, or means to contact their relatives.

Edmundo Ramirez, coordinator of the legislative work group, said a total of 738,000 undocumented people were deported from the United States  last year, of which 400,000 were Mexicans.

Thousands of children, whose parents are illegal immigrants, are left orphaned and homeless in the United States, and would be abandoned at the Mexican side of the border by the US border patrol, said Ramirez.