It's awful, but if the mother has been in jail for five years, her son has been fostered out and the American family took him on for a closed adoption, I'm not surprised her case got turned down. Biological parents are not always the best people to raise a child. Bear in mind I don't know how American social services works, but I will agree that her not being provided with a translator is incredibly callous.
"Biological parents are not always the best people to raise a child"
True in some cases, but it sounds like this decision has been made on the fact she was in the country illegally. To me, that's not a strong enough argument for taking somebody's child away.
Or the decision was made not because she was undocumented but because her undocumented status led to her being jailed and thus unable to parent? (Not that this is completely cut-and-dry obvs)
I find it pretty awful that somebody with a young child (11 months is still a baby!) can be jailed for being undocumented tbh. I find it very hard to believe anyone would work illegally in a chicken processing factory, risking arrest, deportation and jail time just for the lolz. This is fucked up.
No argument here. Even if you believe in deportation etc of undocumented workers, nobody can argue that the way the kids are handled is anywhere near humane.
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True in some cases, but it sounds like this decision has been made on the fact she was in the country illegally. To me, that's not a strong enough argument for taking somebody's child away.
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