{"id":1058,"date":"2011-12-05T08:01:04","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T13:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=1058"},"modified":"2011-12-05T08:01:04","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T13:01:04","slug":"no-drivers-license-were-taking-your-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2011\/12\/no-drivers-license-were-taking-your-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"No Driver&#8217;s License? We&#8217;re Taking Your Kids."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For instance, at the June hearing that terminated the Mendez\u2019s parental rights, they were peppered with seemingly irrelevant questions about their English-speaking ability and immigration status. \u201cDescribe for the court why even three years after [the children went into the state\u2019s custody] you cannot speak English without an interpreter,\u201d asked Bruce Kling, special assistant attorney general for Whitfield County Department of Family and Children\u2019s Service.<\/p>\n<p>The state also argued that the Mendezes\u2019 should not regain custody because, as undocumented immigrants, they could not attain driver\u2019s licenses and therefore couldn\u2019t transport their children. ARC found that many county child welfare departments give this justification for why undocumented parents can\u2019t be trusted as caregivers.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/justice\/2011\/12\/02\/380247\/georgia-wont-return-children-because-parents-are-undocumented-immigrants\/\">Georgia Refuses To Reunite Children With Family Because Parents Are Undocumented | ThinkProgress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For instance, at the June hearing that terminated the Mendez\u2019s parental rights, they were peppered with seemingly irrelevant questions about their English-speaking ability and immigration status. \u201cDescribe for the court why even three years after [the children went into the state\u2019s custody] you cannot speak English without an interpreter,\u201d asked Bruce Kling, special assistant attorney&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,17,22,7],"tags":[675,674,673,96,372],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1059,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058\/revisions\/1059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}