This group is dedicated to the cases of international adoptees, who face deportation or have been deported to their country of birth, because they have been convicted of criminal activity.
Since the Child Citizen Act (2000), international adoptees automatically receive US citizenship, though the law doesn't apply in retrospect to those adoptees adopted before 2000. So there are many, now adult, international adoptees who don't have American citizenship. To them the 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act applies. This law implies deportation of non-citizens for criminal records where they are sentenced to 1 year or more of prison time.
Several international adoptees, most of them having lived almost of all of their lives in the USA, are facing deportation and some already have been deported. A list of the cases can be found here.
| Title | Author | Type | Reads | Created | Replies | Last reply |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adoption Snag Could Lead to Deportation | Niels | Case file | 33 | 6 weeks 9 hours ago | 0 | 6 weeks 9 hours ago |
| Christopher Clancy | Niels | Deportation case | 54 | 6 weeks 9 hours ago | 0 | 6 weeks 9 hours ago |
| Homecoming | Niels | Case file | 28 | 6 weeks 9 hours ago | 0 | 6 weeks 9 hours ago |
| Samuel Schultz vs. Alberto R Gonzales | Niels | Case file | 28 | 6 weeks 10 hours ago | 0 | 6 weeks 10 hours ago |
| Crimes, law return son to land he hardly knows | Niels | Case file | 28 | 6 weeks 10 hours ago | 0 | 6 weeks 10 hours ago |
| Despite adversity, deportee now has new life | Niels | Case file | 26 | 6 weeks 10 hours ago | 0 | 6 weeks 10 hours ago |
| Waiting For Aaron | Niels | Case file | 32 | 6 weeks 10 hours ago | 0 | 6 weeks 10 hours ago |
| Children Adopted Abroad Win Automatic Citizenship | Niels | Case file | 30 | 6 weeks 10 hours ago | 0 | 6 weeks 10 hours ago |
| Change in Laws Sets Off Big Wave of Deportations | Niels | Case file | 27 | 6 weeks 11 hours ago | 0 | 6 weeks 11 hours ago |
| Once a criminal, always a criminal? Unconstitutional presumptions for mandatory detention of criminal aliens | Niels | Case file | 33 | 6 weeks 13 hours ago | 0 | 6 weeks 13 hours ago |
| Cold Empire of Law | Niels | Case file | 26 | 6 weeks 13 hours ago | 0 | 6 weeks 13 hours ago |
| Deported first offender dies in a homeland he never understood | Niels | Case file | 42 | 6 weeks 13 hours ago | 0 | 6 weeks 13 hours ago |
| Newsbrief: Ohio Man Deported for Minor Marijuana Conviction Found Murdered in Brazil | Niels | Case file | 31 | 6 weeks 16 hours ago | 0 | 6 weeks 16 hours ago |
| Akron man faces deportation | Niels | Case file | 26 | 6 weeks 16 hours ago | 0 | 6 weeks 16 hours ago |
| Adoptee Faces Deportation From Misprinted Birth Certificate | Niels | Case file | 29 | 6 weeks 17 hours ago | 0 | 6 weeks 17 hours ago |
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