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SUBMITTER: Hainmueller J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5990252 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hainmueller Jens J Lawrence Duncan D Martén Linna L Black Bernard B Figueroa Lucila L Hotard Michael M Jiménez Tomás R TR Mendoza Fernando F Rodriguez Maria I MI Swartz Jonas J JJ Laitin David D DD
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20170831 6355
The United States is embroiled in a debate about whether to protect or deport its estimated 11 million unauthorized immigrants, but the fact that these immigrants are also parents to more than 4 million U.S.-born children is often overlooked. We provide causal evidence of the impact of parents' unauthorized immigration status on the health of their U.S. citizen children. The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program granted temporary protection from deportation to more than 780,000 u ...[more]