The Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights calculates that, over the past five years, 65,000 to 90,000
Midwest children lost a parent to deportation, based on about 50,000 deported immigrants in the ICE Chicago district, which includes Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Kentucky, Missouri and Kansas.
Since the HM Revenue and Customs discs containing
child benefit data went missing, it has also emerged that three million motorists» details have been
lost in transit in Iowa in the US
Midwest.