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Pull out the tissues for this one – new regulations designed to keep virulent strains of tuberculosis out of the country has caught a Virginia family hoping to adopt a four-year-old girl from China in its quagmire.
Harper Yue Ye already loves her new mom and dad. But she’s still in China, and her parents in Virginia don’t know when – if ever – they can get her home to the states. Continue reading »
Short answer, no. Actually, that’s the long answer, too.
Yet late last fall, authorities took Cirila Baltazar Cruz’s two-day-old daughter Rubi from the Pascagoula, Mississippi, hospital where she was born and placed her in foster care.
Hospital social workers claimed in a report that Ruby was a neglected and in need of protection. The evidence? Quoting the report, the Clarion-Ledger and the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, say authorities were concerned that the baby “was born to an illegal immigrant,” the “mother had not purchased a crib, clothes, food or formula,” and that “she does not speak English which puts baby in danger.” Continue reading »
Someone has come to their senses in the department of homeland security – an eleven-year-old who was to be deported last week has been told she can stay here in the United States.
Ewelina Bledniak of Georgia has lived here since she was three-years-old, but when her parents (one a citizen, the other a legal resident in the process of applying for citizenship) applied for a green card for their daughter, they found out she was an illegal resident. Continue reading »
Her mom and dad are legally allowed to stay at their home in Georgia, but an eleven-year-old child has been ordered to leave the country by July 23.
Ewelina Bledniak’s parents say it’s a paperwork mistake, made by the lawyer they hired when she was two and they moved to the states. Continue reading »
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