NC judge could terminate parental rights of deported worker, put US-born sons up for adoption [View all]
Source: Associated Press
NC judge could terminate parental rights of deported worker, put US-born sons up for adoption
Article by: MICHAEL BIESECKER and GOSIA WOZNIACKA , Associated Press
Updated: March 9, 2012 - 1:47 PM
RALEIGH, N.C. - When immigration agents deported Felipe Montes to Mexico two years ago, his three young sons were left in the care of their mentally ill, American-born mother in a small North Carolina mountain town.
Despite immigration policies that allow for the release of primary caregivers, federal authorities worked swiftly to expel Montes. Within two weeks, social workers placed the boys in foster care.
Child welfare officials are now asking a judge to strip Montes of his parental rights, reasoning it's better for the children to live with strangers in the country where they were born than with their father in Mexico. Such a ruling could clear the way for their adoption.
That would be unfathomable to Montes, whose only brushes with the law were a string of traffic violations.
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