Self-Deportation Flights: A New Dilemma for U.S. Citizen Children

Introduction

The U.S. has recently signed self-deportation airlines sending the migrants to their towns. Together with these flights are U.S. citizens' children, found in the contradictory immigration rules of these children's right to return.

The first flight: aboard with U.S. citizen children

A couple of days ago the first self-deportation flight from the U.S. made its way to Honduras carrying U.S. citizen children. This move is part of a larger policy that allows migrants to voluntarily leave the country with a bus ticket and a cash incentive. However, sending U.S. citizen children along these flights has raised massive legal and humanitarian challenges.

Legal challenges and implications

The legal condition of the children creates hazards to return to the U.S. without difficulties. Even if they are citizens, administrative barriers and a lack of legal guardianship in the U.S. cause problems for their return. The situation has provoked long-standing discourses on the rights of citizen children and the ethics of such deportations.

Voices of concern

Human rights defenders claim that the policies concerned the rights of the children, who are citizens by birth. The mental separation from their homeland and the resulting vulnerabilities including abandonment have been criticized by various groups. The psychological and emotional problems that these children endure are also the matter of concern.

Conclusion

While self-deportation flights imposed in the U.S., the necessity of children who are U.S. citizens is an enduring matter against which justice needs to be said. The compassionate and lawful way to immigration accreditation is needed more than ever.