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The High Cost of Deporting Parents

As Barack Obama considers ways to enforce immigration laws "more humanely," VICE News travels to Guatemala to meet a deportee named Ray Jesus, who lives apart from his American wife and 5 American children. When Ray lived in the U.S., he was the family's breadwinner. Now they rely on welfare to get by. It turns out that deporting parents costs much more than the price of a one-way ticket home.

English
  • Originally Aired March 19, 2014
  • Runtime 25 minutes
  • Network YouTube
  • Production Company VICE Media
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