![]() Pedro had the traumatic experience of being held in an actual prison for 24 hours for simply being found on a Greyhound bus on his way back to college. Jong-Min shared how being undocumented feels like being in an “invisible prison”. In the video, Jong-Min, Pedro and Silvia all describe the negative impacts that their undocumented status has had on their lives. How does being undocumented negatively affect well-being? These kinds of “mixed-status” family situations are very common with an estimated nine million people living in families that contain at least one undocumented adult and one citizen child vi. ![]() There are an estimated 5.5 million children with at least one undocumented parent, 4.5 million of whom were born here making them U.S. Nearly half of undocumented adults are parents of minors iv, many of whom are citizens. There are one million children under 18 i and 4.4 million under 30 ii living in America out of the estimated total of 11.1 million undocumented immigrants iii living in America. These young people are not the only ones affected by undocumented status. ![]() How many undocumented children and youth live in America? Answers to Your Questions about Undocumented Youth in America 1.
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