{"id":2316,"date":"2020-11-16T19:16:57","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T01:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rhizomecenter.org\/?p=2316"},"modified":"2020-11-16T19:18:20","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T01:18:20","slug":"end-the-deportation-of-foreign-adopted-children-of-american-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhizomecenter.org\/es\/2020\/11\/end-the-deportation-of-foreign-adopted-children-of-american-parents\/","title":{"rendered":"Pongan fin a las deportaciones de ni\u00f1os extranjeros adoptados por padres estadounidenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>[Guadalajara, Jal. November 16, 2020] <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are currently an estimated 35,000 to 75,000 intercountry adoptees who do not have U. S. citizenship.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Child Citizenship Act of 2000 made it possible for many foreign-born children to gain automatic citizenship. However, it did not cover adoptees who were 18 or older at that time and already in the United States, leaving <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/philly\/news\/foreign-born-adoptees-without-american-citizenship-deport-immigrants-20180604.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">thousands in limbo<\/a><\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An unknown number of adult American adoptees have already b<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">een deported as a result of <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">this loophole and have endured multiple traumas due to our flawed adoption system. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As children, they were abandoned in their home countries, then brought to the United States, and later abandoned again. After their deportation, they are sent to a country where they have no family or cultural ties. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In their first home countries, they can be denied legal status as a result of their American adoptions, leaving them stateless as a direct result of institutional failures to protect them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Rhizome Center for Migrants defends the right of U.S. citizens to keep their families intact. Today, the organization joins a coalition of more than 180 organizations to correct failures in our adoption system and end all future deportations of foreign adoptees of American citizens.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read our letter to House leadership <a href=\"https:\/\/rhizomecenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Adoptee-Citizenship-Act-National-Letter-to-House-Leadership.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\">here<\/span><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Guadalajara, Jal. November 16, 2020] There are currently an estimated 35,000 to 75,000 intercountry adoptees who do not have U. S. citizenship.\u00a0 The Child Citizenship Act of 2000 made it possible for many foreign-born children to gain automatic citizenship. However, it did not cover adoptees who were 18 or older at that time and already [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2317,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[99,64,65,43,36],"class_list":["post-2316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release","tag-adopted-children","tag-american-children","tag-binational-families","tag-deportation","tag-family-unity"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rhizomecenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Adoptee-With-American-Mom.jpg?fit=960%2C735&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhizomecenter.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhizomecenter.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhizomecenter.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhizomecenter.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhizomecenter.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rhizomecenter.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhizomecenter.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhizomecenter.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhizomecenter.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhizomecenter.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}