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October 10, 2018

AP: Deported Parents Could Lose Children to U.S. Adoption
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In immigration news, an Associated Press investigation has revealed that
parents deported from the U.S. may lose their children to adoption
without their knowledge. The AP found "holes in the system" that allow
for state judges to put children of deported Central American immigrants
in the custody of U.S. families without notifying the parents. This
could also affect immigrants who crossed the border during the Trump
administration's "zero tolerance" policy, under which border officials
routinely separated parents from their children as they entered the
country.


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