This comes less under the political banner and more under the controversial banner. Despite that case where that religious group that got a lot of attention (and jail time) was squirreling kids out of Haiti, apparently the US took quite a number (1,150 according to the article) of kids out of Haiti with very little scrutiny of paperwork and family ties. It's a very interesting 4 page story and one I've not heard much about.
"Under a sparingly used immigration program, called humanitarian parole, adoptions were expedited regardless of whether children were in peril, and without the screening required to make sure they had not been improperly separated from their relatives or placed in homes that could not adequately care for them. Some Haitian orphanages were nearly emptied, even though they had not been affected by the quake or licensed to handle adoptions. Children were released without legal documents showing they were orphans and without regard for evidence suggesting fraud."
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What do you think of this? Is this going to come back and bite us in the butt as a country? Are the American families that took these kids in sure to face heartbreak down the road? Is it criminal? It doesn't appear that all of the receiving families got a lot of screening, either.
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