Its complicated but basically a new law went into effect on July 1st that adopted children over 2 yrs old must go through TB testing before receiving their Visa to immigrate to the USA. The adoptive community has known it was a matter of time before this was going to create a devastating situation....and now it has.
The Scruggs family adopted their daughter Harper. She tested positive for TB (but has been on medications for 2 months, and various experts say she is not contagious). They petitioned and pulled who knows how many strings to get a waiver for her Visa. But end the end the CDC said NO and this family had to ABANDON their new daughter in China and return to the US. This little girl has been abandoned for the 4 time in her 4 years of life! Here's one part that just P**es me off! If Harper were a "natural born" child of the Scruggs she would not go through all of this. She is being DISCRIMINATED against because she is adopted. She is a child of US citizens but is not being given the same rights.
Please, please help this family and the many others who will be effected if the laws don't change. There are several people in government who could fix this quickly.....we need someone with REAL leadership to step up and fix this injustice! Anyone, anyone???
Please read their website as it explains things much better than I have. Also please watch their video when they had to leave their daughter....it is awful, terrible and will prompt us all to get up and DO something as they have requested.
http://jayscruggs.livejournal.com/
http://www.comicscollaborative.net/goodbye.mov
This should be the link for their Goodbye with Harper
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