"We were stunned to discover just how the process of immigration is a process of families becoming separated over time and reunited," said Marcelo Suarez-Orozco, who documented the phenomenon with his fellow New York University education professor and wife, Carola, in a study that they published this spring. "It breaks your heart to look at this data."

For the full article by San Francisco Chronicle writer Tyche Hendricks, click on:  http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/07/06/BAGICDJBJ41.DTL