Richmond, California
07 July 2006
In an unprecedented international collaboration, California crime scientists are analyzing DNA from hundreds of families in El Salvador who are searching for their children, lost during the civil war that tormented that country for more than a decade. The violence took 75,000 lives and, in the chaos, thousands of children were put in orphanages and adoption centers. Many were adopted by families in the United States and Europe. The war ended in 1992, but its aftermath is now playing out in a California laboratory....
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U.S. adoptee a stranger in his birthplace
U.S. adoptee a stranger in his birthplace
An adoptee, age 29, who was adopted by a U.S. couple when he was 6 months old has been deported to El Salvador after spending five years in immigration detention in Otay Mesa while he appealed his case."Described by his father as "a middle-class white kid" raised in an Anglo household, Mustanich learned a handful of Spanish words from Latino detainees while in immigration detention, but is otherwise starting over as a stranger in a strange land."Check out the link below for the rest of the article: http://news.%20adoption.%20com/out/us-%20adoptee-a-%20stranger-%20in-his-birthplac%20e
An adoptee, age 29, who was adopted by a U.S. couple when he was 6 months old has been deported to El Salvador after spending five years in immigration detention in Otay Mesa while he appealed his case."Described by his father as "a middle-class white kid" raised in an Anglo household, Mustanich learned a handful of Spanish words from Latino detainees while in immigration detention, but is otherwise starting over as a stranger in a strange land."Check out the link below for the rest of the article: http://news.%20adoption.%20com/out/us-%20adoptee-a-%20stranger-%20in-his-birthplac%20e
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