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For the better part of A's life, she never suspected anything was wrong.

She breezed through getting her driver's license. She applied to college and filed her taxes year after year without any hiccups. That is, until she applied for her passport.

Suddenly, the document she always relied on — a delayed registration of birth, which is fairly common among adoptees — was no longer enough. She realized the papers that would prove she was a citizen were not just missing — they had never existed in the first place.no

" I just sensed there was something wrong and it seemed frightening," said A, who asked to be referred to by her last initial out of fear of deportation.

A later found out that her adoptive parents never completed her naturalization. It meant she was technically barred from accessing things that she took for granted all her life — like college financial aid. It also left A, who is now in her 40s, vulnerable to deportation to her native South Korea — a country she has never been to, where she doesn't speak the language or know of any family.

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[-] Draegur@lemm.ee 30 points 1 week ago

Boomer negligence and outright malfeasance ruins yet another millennial life on several levels...

If her parents had been fucking responsible, she'd be in less shit right now.

If her parents' GENERATION hadn't been FUCKING EVIL, there wouldn't be as much shit to BE in in the first place.

[-] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Ah, yes, an entire generation of people, including hippies and students shot for protesting wars, etc are all responsible for everything bad.

[Edit: The same generation that fought and died for civil rights, for voting rights, for freedom and justice, for equality, for womens rights. That entire generation you call EVIL!!!! For whichever of you wish to equate the deeds or inactions of some - may you be judged as you have judged.]

What you angrily avoid speaking about are the wealthy and politicians who have made the world the place it is.

Because, by your logic, millenials, every one of them, are evil, because not every single one of them was good.

Try harder to make people hate.

(I love the random trump all caps use, BTW. Super cool)

[-] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 14 points 1 week ago

Divide and conquer

[-] Ajen@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago

You don't get it, these people who adopted a little girl and supported her to adulthood only did it so she would eventually get denied a passport and possibly deported. It's called "the long con," look it up.

/s

[-] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

~~Wasnt her adopted family that failed to complete the papers.~~

[-] Ajen@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

From the OP:

A later found out that her adoptive parents never completed her naturalization.

[-] chtk@feddit.nl 3 points 1 week ago

This pretty much sounds like the inciting incident from Blue Bayou.

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