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Related: About this forumShe was an orphan adopted from Iran by a US veteran. The Trump administration wants to deport her
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Walter Olson
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This one could make you cry. (For years international adoptees became U.S. citizens only when their adoptive parents took the needed steps to get them naturalized; a 2000 law automatically naturalizes legal adoptees on arrival, but that came too late for this woman).
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She was an orphan adopted from Iran by a US veteran. The Trump administration wants to deport her
A woman adopted as a toddler by an American war veteran, who he found in the 1970s in an Iranian orphanage and raised as a Christian, is being threatened with deportation to Iran, a country notoriousl...
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1:25 PM · Feb 21, 2026
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This one could make you cry. (For years international adoptees became U.S. citizens only when their adoptive parents took the needed steps to get them naturalized; a 2000 law automatically naturalizes legal adoptees on arrival, but that came too late for this woman).
Sue Ferrara
@sferrara.bsky.social
· 4h
@walterolson.bsky.social www.yahoo.com/news/article...
She was an orphan adopted from Iran by a US veteran. The Trump administration wants to deport her
A woman adopted as a toddler by an American war veteran, who he found in the 1970s in an Iranian orphanage and raised as a Christian, is being threatened with deportation to Iran, a country notoriousl...
www.yahoo.com
1:25 PM · Feb 21, 2026
This one could make you cry. (For years international adoptees became U.S. citizens only when their adoptive parents took the needed steps to get them naturalized; a 2000 law automatically naturalizes legal adoptees on arrival, but that came too late for this woman).
— Walter Olson (@walterolson.bsky.social) 2026-02-21T18:25:29.256Z
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She was an orphan adopted from Iran by a US veteran. The Trump administration wants to deport her (Original Post)
mahatmakanejeeves
15 hrs ago
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2naSalit
(101,478 posts)1. Cruelty is the point.
marybourg
(13,605 posts)2. I would ask a third country for asylum if I were her.
Diamond_Dog
(40,196 posts)3. I thought we were only supposed to deport criminals.
Silly me.
Lovie777
(22,441 posts)4. Unfortunately they must take it to court...............................