I had to share this post as part of NO-Vember Adoption Awareness... Trace
Stop deporting adoptees!
Posted on November 18, 2011
Take the time to inform yourself about this special class of adoptees: They assume they are U.S. citizens. And then some issue arises and all of a sudden their citizenship is denied or questioned, or found out to be legally non-existent. As young adults they find themselves deported to their “home” nation, yet they know no one there (having grown up in the USA) and usually no longer speak their native language. Outrageous. Just another example of the “never quite belonging” way adoptees get treated in our society.
Read more here:
http://johnraible.wordpress.com/2011/11/18/stop-deporting-adoptees/
And any First Nations adoptees who have been deported to Canada, please comment here...
Stop deporting adoptees!
Posted on November 18, 2011
Take the time to inform yourself about this special class of adoptees: They assume they are U.S. citizens. And then some issue arises and all of a sudden their citizenship is denied or questioned, or found out to be legally non-existent. As young adults they find themselves deported to their “home” nation, yet they know no one there (having grown up in the USA) and usually no longer speak their native language. Outrageous. Just another example of the “never quite belonging” way adoptees get treated in our society.
Read more here:
http://johnraible.wordpress.com/2011/11/18/stop-deporting-adoptees/
And any First Nations adoptees who have been deported to Canada, please comment here...
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