Over Half a Million US-Born Kids Live in Mexico with Deported Parents Gardenia Mendoza - Fox News Latino
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Jeffrey Isidoro, 10, moved to Mexico after his father was deported from the United States. He is part of a new generation of young immigrants blurring the line between Mexican and American. (The New York Times)

In the last seven years, approximately 4.2 million Mexicans have returned to their home country from the U.S. with an order of deportation, according to the Department of National Security.

Of these, official records show, one out of four ends up bringing the entire family back to Mexico — or at least part of it.

This explains why there are currently 498,000 U.S.-born minors living in Mexico, many of them Spanish illiterate and struggling to adapt to an entirely different school system.

“On average, only one in 10 Americans who have come back to Mexico makes it to college,” said Guadalupe Chipole, director of the Center for Migrant Support, to Fox News Latino. “There is no coordinated system between U.S. and Mexican authorities to help them.”

Chipole, whose organization tracks all deported migrants who arrive in Mexico City on the three weekly flights chartered by the U.S. government, said that families are often torn apart over money and custody issues, and most kids are left in a very vulnerable situation.

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