The televised question from the little girl to Mrs. Obama may help show more people the real story. Citizen children afraid their parents may be deported. - - Donna Poisl
By Tara Bahrampour, Washington Post Staff Writer
Even as immigration authorities promised they would not try to deport the mother of a Silver Spring second-grader, the girl's conversation with Michelle Obama reverberated through the family's community and the country Thursday, reviving a debate about mixed-status families.
As of 2008, 4 million U.S.-born Hispanic children had at least one parent who was an illegal immigrant, according to the Pew Hispanic Center. The number is growing, with 300,000 to 400,000 children born to illegal immigrants each year, said Jeffrey S. Passel, a senior demographer at the center, who said that families are often neglected in the immigration debate.
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