Between 2000 and 2015, the U.S. deported unprecedented numbers of Mexican immigrants. During the same period, the population of U.S.-born children living in Mexico doubled in size. This study estimates the number of U.S.-born children who emigrated to Mexico from the United States in order to accompany a deported parent: de facto deported children. The data come from the Mexican National Survey of Demographic Dynamics (ENADID), a national probability sample of households in Mexico collected in 2014 and 2018. About one in six U.S.-born children living in Mexico in 2014/2018, amounting to an estimated 80,000–100,000 U.S.-born children, were there because the U.S. government deported one or both of their parents. De facto deported U.S.-born children are socioeconomically disadvantaged in Mexico compared to U.S.-born children whose parents migrate to Mexico for other reasons. Women are overrepresented among deported people who bring their U.S.-born children to Mexico, and when deported mothers bring their children, they are far less likely to do so with a partner than are deported fathers. U.S. policy should consider the interests of U.S. citizen children forced to live abroad when redesigning immigration and child welfare policies.

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美国公民儿童事实上被驱逐到墨西哥

2000 年至 2015 年间，美国驱逐了空前数量的墨西哥移民。同一时期，居住在墨西哥的美国出生儿童人数翻了一番。这项研究估计了从美国移民到墨西哥以陪伴被驱逐的父母的美国出生儿童的数量：事实上被驱逐的儿童。数据来自墨西哥全国人口动态调查 (ENADID)，这是 2014 年和 2018 年收集的墨西哥家庭的全国概率样本。2014/2018 年，约有六分之一的美国出生儿童生活在墨西哥，估计有 80,000 人–100,000 名在美国出生的儿童，因为美国政府驱逐了他们的父母之一或双方。与美国相比，墨西哥事实上被驱逐出境的美国出生儿童在社会经济上处于不利地位 -父母因其他原因移居墨西哥而出生的孩子。在将在美国出生的孩子带到墨西哥的被驱逐者中，女性所占比例过高，而当被驱逐的母亲将孩子带到墨西哥时，与被驱逐的父亲相比，她们与伴侣一起这样做的可能性要小得多。美国政策在重新设计移民和儿童福利政策时应考虑被迫居住在国外的美国公民儿童的利益。