Question about citizenship and deportation.

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5. I have heard where adopted foreign born children were deported as adults

Because their parents did not complete a naturalization process for them. This was reported a couple times back in the mid 2000's when news in the Pacific NW covered several only English speaking Chinese and Korean adoptees who were getting deported for minor convictions as part of yet another "get tough on immigration effort".

I do know military families often adopt kids from overseas; the military has a process to get the kids proper citizenship, but a lot of civilian adoptions, especially the major for profit organizations, don't push the new parents to pursue citizenship for their adopted children.