Adam Crapser was adopted by an American couple as a child. They never completed his citizenship papers, and abandoned him into the foster system. Now, despite appeals for help, he is being deported.

capriciousnerd:

geek-baits:

Two things: 1.) Congress is trash and I cant wait to vote them out because we do not need a Congress that consistently fails their people and 2.) STOP ADOPTING BABIES FROM OVERSEAS IF YOU AREN’T GOING TO FUCKING TAKE CARE OF THEM. EMOTIONALLY, PHYSICALLY, LEGALLY. IF YOU AREN’T GOING TO TAKE CARE OF A BABY, THEN DON’T TRY TO RAISE ONE. ASIAN CHILDREN ARE NOT EXOTIC SOUVENIRS, SO STOP TREATING THEM LIKE THEY ARE.

The foster care system, the justice system, and the US government has failed this man.

I’m putting this out there as a person who has worked in and with the foster system. In particular, I’ve worked with it in California. But here is shit I saw that’s relevant to this article:

I’m 500% behind everything @geek-baits said, especially the all-caps. And the following is why.

Some people don’t realise that there are a lot of kids in the foster care system who are undocumented (or, “illegal,” except being a person in a country isn’t fucking illegal), and there are a ridiculous amount of reasons for this. Here are some of the reasons my students (in an all-foster youth school) gave me for being undocumented:

1. Same as this man. They were adopted by people who then didn’t finish processing their paperwork. This was most commonly Southeast/East Asian children, but it also applied to African children.

2. Some of them were with their also undocumented families. And then they were removed from their families because of complaints of neglect/abuse by neighbours, schools, people LIVING in their community (who weren’t really OF their community), etc. Their families would then be taken in by ICE and deported while they (and some of their siblings) got tossed into foster care. Most of these kids were Latin American.

3. Some children were brought in via trafficking. I had two particular girls who were brought over from Africa (one from Congo, one from Sudan), didn’t have their paperwork processed at all (by their adoptive “parents”), and they were removed from the homes once it was determined that they were being abused. (Both girls, however, told me that nothing happened other than removing them from the home. Their white “parents” were never held accountable, and their files corroborated this along with previous social workers.)

Here’s another fun bit of information: A lot of those kids, especially in groups 1 and 2, don’t realise that they’re undocumented until much later in life. They go to apply for their first job (aged 16+), only to realise they don’t have a social security number; they go to do things that require being a citizen only to realise they can’t and, at that point, are put into a dangerous situation (being deported is a dangerous situation).

It’s gross, it’s disgusting, and shit’s gotta give. We can’t keep doing this to people, and this is disproportionately affecting people of colour.