Colorado Couple Employed By Govt. Fight to Stop Deportation of 4 Yr. Old Adopted Daughter

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- The Hill, 'Colorado couple fighting to stop adopted 4-year-old daughter from being deported,' The Hill, Aug 12, 2018.

A Colorado couple says their adopted daughter could be deported in the coming weeks after, they say, the Trump administration denied her citizenship application without explanation.

Amy and Marco Becerra, both U.S. citizens, told Denver Fox-affiliate KDVR that they adopted their 4-year-old daughter, Angela, when they were in Peru in 2014. Marco Becerra also has citizenship in Peru, where he is from.

The couple said Angela had been abandoned at birth by a woman who was disabled and had been sex trafficked and was ultimately unable to care for the newborn. The Becerras legally adopted Angela through Peruvian court, and sought to bring her back to the U.S. after the adoption was finalized in 2017.

"We wanted her to have the opportunities that are available here, the education that's available here. The American dream," Amy Becerra told KDVR.

But Angela's immigration application was delayed, and the U.S. government declined to grant her a travel visa for more than a year, they said.

The tourist visa that Angela was eventually granted is set to expire at the end of this month, but her immigration case was denied without explanation, according to the couple. It is unlikely they will be able to complete an appeals process before the tourist visa runs out.

"We're both citizens. My husband and I have a full legal binding adoption completed and we have a birth certificate that lists no other parent," Amy Becerra said, telling KDVR that she and her husband are scared to raise their daughter in the U.S. as an undocumented immigrant.

Both parents are government workers. Amy Becerra works for the state of Colorado and Marco Becerra works for the federal government. - More,
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/colorado-couple-fighting-to-stop-adopted-4-year-old-daughter-from-being-deported/ar-BBLPmGr

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1. I thought Trump was not going to separate families anymore!

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2. Right, I cannot believe this, the tension from delays for this family

must be awful. How cruel, incredible and heartbreaking. Precious little girl and stable, loving parents.

Good thing anti-immigrant Laura Ingraham adopted her two Russian children & Guatemalan daughter before this era.

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3. Happy to share this update:

[link:https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/15/us/colorado-child-citizenship-case/index.html|

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4. Thanks. Good thing Rep. Coffman assisted & this worked out for the family.

Aurora, Colorado (CNN) — Amy and Marco Becerra got some very welcome news Wednesday: The orphaned Peruvian girl they adopted will not be deported. US Rep. Mike Coffman, who took up the Colorado couple's cause, told CNN that he met with immigration officials, who will allow the child to seek citizenship.

The Becerras, both US citizens, were living in Peru in 2014 when they met the newborn girl they would name Angela. They fostered, then adopted her and eventually brought the girl back to their home in Aurora on a tourist visa. Amy Becerra works for the state of Colorado, while Marco Becerra, who is also a citizen of Peru, works for the federal government. "She changed our lives. We became parents. And so it was no longer about our needs. It was what was best for Angela," Amy Becerra said.