i can´t really take care of her financially,because i make enough money to bearly take care of myself,i´m not proud of what i did in the past,i can shore say that i changed my ways,i can take care of myself,who´s going to do that with my doughter,i was never asked to be taken to the us,now y feel that i am american,even do i was born in a different country,inmigrations told me that i would never be able to come back because of my criminal history,i miss my doughter,and i shore hope she is well ,this are the cases that matter the most i think,the same is happening with the adoptive mother of this indian kid,well he did some things wrong,i´m shore his mother is going to miss his son,i think unstead of spending all this money deporting and housing some one for ever in a jail.thy should spend it rehabilitating this kid,i was rehabilitaded,and it doesn´t mean that i´m not going to pay for the cosecuences of my actions trust me i did,i spent enough time in jail,for what i´ve done,i just hope that CLAIRA CHAPARRO ,my baby has a chance to live with her father,or i hope that she can find a good dad to be with her,i love her so much ,i just want to tell her i´m so sorry for not being able to be there for her

Dieter, why don’t you stop getting your panties in a bunch whenever you sense an opening for white-bashing?

Sadaiyappan, You should really look into the diversity of India before making statements on what constitutes an Indian. Those people living in the northeast aren’t “Chinese,” they’re Indian. We come in all shapes, sizes and colors, unlike Bollywood actors.

I don’t disagree with you, but I do think that even legitimate cases of persecution will be denied if the government can use this denial to its advantage. My professor was telling us once about a case in Chicago in the late 80s of a Salvadoran man who fled the war and actually had a bullet lodged in the back of his head. The judge STILL denied him asylum, saying that he could have gotten that in a street fight or something. I think it’s a safe bet that had this been a Nicaraguan and not a Salvadoran, his request for asylum would have been approved, with the government touting “look what these commie Sandanistas are doing to innocent people!” I also think that the U.S. would have been more legally sympathetic to Salvadorans had it not been investing billions of dollars in crushing the FMLN and left with justifying to the public that the money was not going toward war and human rights abuses.

Additionally, such a rule means that the bonds of adopting a child are not as important or real as giving birth to one. He has grown up in the US for as long as he can remember, as part of a family here. By sending him back, it seems to me that they are basically stating that families built through adoption are not as ‘real’ as blood relatives. It seems like it could open a larger issue into adoption and rights of adopted children.