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28 January 2018

The Irish babies adopted to the US, now adults in a legal limbo

At least 200 people adopted from Ireland to the US in the 1940s-1960s fear for their future. Immigrants and their status in the US continues to be an ongoing issue. Some of this focus has been about a cohort of people known as Dreamers; mainly Spanish American immigrants who arrived undocumented as children with their parents into the US before the age of 16 and whose status is now in question under Donald Trump’s presidency. But the Dreamers are not the only people now worried about their status in a country that has been their home for almost all their lives. A significant number of Irish-born people are in a different kind of citizenship limbo.

https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/abroad/the-irish-babies-adopted-to-the-us-now-adults-in-a-legal-limbo-1.3360195