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underpants

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1. I had absolutely no idea adoptees weren't just given citizenship. No idea.

Reply to Jilly_in_VA (Original post)

Fri Oct 31, 2025, 06:38 PM

Oct 2025

This should’ve been the standard/rule decades before Obama or Biden.

Shirley is not alone. Estimates of how many American adoptees lack citizenship range from 18,000 to 75,000. Some intercountry adoptees may not even know they lack US citizenship.

So the babies airlifted out of Vietnam weren’t given citizenship?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Babylift

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The American adoptees who fear deportation to a country they can't remember [View all] Jilly_in_VA Oct 2025 OP

I had absolutely no idea adoptees weren't just given citizenship. No idea. underpants Oct 2025 #1

They may be at risk for deportation to Vietnam or Sudan or wherever: dalton99a Oct 2025 #3

Here's the case that started it all, from the town I worked in at the time Ms. Toad Oct 2025 #2

Who are you directing that to? Jilly_in_VA Nov 2025 #4

Typo. Ms. Toad Nov 2025 #5