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mahatmakanejeeves

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Sat Feb 21, 2026, 05:15 PM 9 hrs ago

She 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).

‪Sue Ferrara‬
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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

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 9 hrs ago OP
Cruelty is the point. 2naSalit 9 hrs ago #1
I would ask a third country for asylum if I were her. marybourg 9 hrs ago #2
I thought we were only supposed to deport criminals. Diamond_Dog 8 hrs ago #3
Unfortunately they must take it to court............................... Lovie777 8 hrs ago #4
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