Dear Editor:
I am a British citizen residing in London. I have had the unfortunate experience of witnessing your country's immigration policies, though indirectly. I am a concerned brother of a person who was deported from the U.S back in November of 2002. She later married a resident alien who has now been granted citizenship status. They both have three children together, the last borne in Nigeria since she was removed from the US. All efforts by her husband to secure her return to the US has failed. She has not see her husband nor the children she left behind for over 16 months now.
My concern however is about the mental punishment and scar on the children. No mother's presence for 16 months; it comes as no surprise why they are falling behind in school work, the feeling that their mum purposely deserted them and the loss of love than you can only get from your mother at such a very young age.
O. Taiwo
London (UK)
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