Most deported parents decline reunification with their children, saying it's too dangerous in their homeland

The San Diego Union Tribune reports:

Deep into the extraordinary effort to locate deported parents who remain separated from their children, attorneys are learning that about two-thirds want their children to stay in the U.S. rather than reunite as a family in their homelands.

“We’ve had some very difficult conversations with parents this week, where the parent is ultimately saying, as much as they’d like to be with the child and as heartbreaking as it is, it’s too dangerous for the child to come back,” Lee Gelernt, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union, told a San Diego federal judge Friday.

The parents that abandon their children....