02/03/2012 08:14:00 AM EST
Stolen Babies? Immigrant Mother Loses Four Kids
"The scars of childbirth were still healing on Amelia Reyes Jimenez's
stomach in 2008 when police came to her Phoenix apartment and took her
three-month-old daughter from her arms. Three and a half years later, Reyes Jimenez and her four children have
become statistics in the U.S. crackdown on illegal immigration. Each
year thousands of children of undocumented immigrants, like Amelia's kids, wind up in foster care when their parents are arrested for immigration violations.
Some are even adopted by U.S. citizens while their parents are held in
federal detention centers or deported back to their native countries." - ABC News, Feb. 2, 2012.