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butterbean · Joined: 21 Jun 2006 Posts: 2269

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - A group of lawyers and immigrant advocates Wednesday sued the federal government, seeking to stop immigration officials from deporting undocumented parents of U.S.-born children.

The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Miami, seeks class action status for 60 families in South Florida. Officials from Honduran Unity, Nicaraguan Fraternity and the Peruvian-American Coalition asked the court for an emergency injunction to halt deportations they say trample the civil rights of American children.

The lawsuit names as defendants President Bush, Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzalez, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and federal immigration officials. Advocates say an injunction would protect children while Congress considers competing immigration proposals - a debate that has been stalled in recent months.

"It's election time and members of Congress decided to save their seats and forget about immigration reform," said Nora Sandigo, head of the Nicaraguan Fraternity. "They chose to sacrifice children who were born here but are treated like second-class citizens because their parents are undocumented."

More than three million children born in the United States have parents who are undocumented immigrants, according to researchers at the Washington, D.C.-based Urban Institute. Often dubbed "anchor babies" by anti-immigrant groups, they form an emotional fault line in the debate over how to fix a frayed immigration system.

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Deport them all! They can't keep coming here, plopping down babies, and then crying unfair. These anchor-babies are NOT citizens anyway. The lawmakers need to confirm that the 14th amendment is being misconstrued.