Deported for Being Poor: A Seattle Mother and Her U.S.-Born Children Ordered to Canada
A young woman who married a British subject, separated after a quarrel, and was deemed likely to become a public charge is turned over by the juvenile court for deportation—along with her two American-born children.
Seattle—Mrs. Annie Majurev, a young woman born in Minneapolis, Minn., and her two children, both born in the United States, face deportation to Canada by the federal authorities on the grounds that they are liable to become public charges. Mrs. Majurev married a British subject, and the couple, after coming to Seattle from Vancouver, quarreled and separated. The Humane Society brought the matter before the juvenile court. The court turned the family over to the government for deportation.
“The court turned the family over to the government for deportation.”
The 'public charge' argument and the deportation of a mother with U.S.-born children are not relics of 1909. The case shows how immigration enforcement has long reached into family life, turning poverty and marital breakdown into grounds for removal.
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