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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Io Dodds

Roughly 200,000 children who were adopted overseas now at risk for deportation from US, lawyers say

As many as 200,000 adopted children who were born overseas are now at risk of detention or deportation by the Trump administration because they never received U.S. citizenship, lawyers say.

Over the past 80 years, American parents have adopted a total of more than 500,000 children from abroad — some kidnapped from their biological parents by unscrupulous adoption agencies.

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