{"id":380518,"date":"2018-10-11T11:33:21","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T10:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-government-may-put-separated-immigrant-children-up-for-adoption\/"},"modified":"2018-10-11T11:33:21","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T10:33:21","slug":"us-government-may-put-separated-immigrant-children-up-for-adoption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-government-may-put-separated-immigrant-children-up-for-adoption\/","title":{"rendered":"US government may put separated immigrant children up for adoption"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>US government may put separated immigrant children up for adoption<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Eric London<br \/>\n    <br \/>11 October 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>An Associated Press investigation revealed Tuesday that the US government has been secretly allowing US couples to adopt immigrant children separated from their parents.<\/p>\n<p>The AP investigation uncovered cases\u2014many recent but some dating back to the 1980s\u2014in which judges granted adoption requests even though the children\u2019s actual parents were never informed. AP warns that roughly 200 immigrant children who remain separated from their parents as a result of the Trump administration\u2019s \u201cZero Tolerance\u201d policy are at heightened risk of being adopted.<\/p>\n<p>The report featured the story of one child, Alexa, who was separated from her Salvadoran mother, Araceli Ramos. When Alexa and Araceli were captured crossing the US-Mexico border trying to flee Araceli\u2019s abusive ex-partner, Alexa was torn from her mother\u2019s arms, and agents told her she \u201cwould never see her again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlexa\u2019s case began in November 2015 under the Obama administration,\u201d AP writes, \u201cyears before Trump\u2019s family-separation policy rolled out. Her 15-month separation from her mother exposes the fragile legal standing of children under the care of the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement and a flawed, piecemeal system that can change the course of a child\u2019s life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt took 28 minutes for a judge in a rural courthouse near Lake Michigan to grant Alexa\u2019s foster parents, Sherri and Kory Barr, temporary guardianship. Alexa\u2019s mother and the little girl\u2019s immigration attorney were not even notified about the proceedings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Such horror stories have been playing out for years, the AP reports, under Democratic and Republican administrations. In another case in Missouri, AP writes, \u201cAn American&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/10\/11\/immi-o11.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 US government may put separated immigrant children up for adoption By Eric London 11 October 2018 An Associated Press investigation revealed Tuesday that the US government has been secretly allowing US couples to adopt immigrant children separated from their parents. The AP investigation uncovered cases\u2014many recent but some dating back to the 1980s\u2014in which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-380518","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}