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Attorney Gregory Luce is working to help international adoptees secure documents they need to prove their legal status, as the Trump administration pursues its goals of widespread immigration enforcement. The state is home to a number of international, otherwise known as intercountry, adoptees, including the nation’s highest concentration of adoptees from South Korea. 

Many people, adoptees and parents included, might have assumed that anyone adopted by U.S. citizens would also have citizenship. But that’s not always the case. Gregory Luce is an attorney and founder of the Adoptee Rights Law Center, based in Minneapolis. He has been helping adoptees navigate what’s become a precarious situation for some and joined MPR News host Nina Moini to explain the gaps in citizenship some adoptees face.

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Many people, adoptees and parents included, might assume that anyone adopted by U.S. citizens would also have citizenship. But that’s not always the case. A lawyer with the Adoptee Rights Law Center based in Minneapolis explains.

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