Illegal Immigrants’ Children Suffer, Study Finds

This study shows how these children are suffering and falling behind since their parents don't know where to get assistance or are afraid to. - - Donna Poisl

By KIRK SEMPLE

Eulogia was scared and adrift. At 25, she was poor, pregnant and an illegal immigrant. She worried about how she would pay for medical care and raise her baby, and even whether a trip to the hospital might prompt her deportation to Mexico.

But when she plunged into a postpartum depression in 2003 after the birth of her daughter, the first of three children, a hospital social worker referred her and her husband to an East Harlem social service agency that has counseled them and helped them get care for their family and get the government assistance their children were eligible for as American citizens.
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