Paul Fernando Schreiner paces around a sparsely furnished room, swatting mosquitoes from his arms and neck as he wonders if today will be any different from all the others. The heavy, dense air of this city across the bay from Rio de Janeiro feels insufferable, nothing like the dry heat of Phoenix,
1 / 11Brazil Deported AdopteeIn this April 11, 2019, photo, Paul Fernando Schreiner is reflected on a screen as he speaks on the phone with his father, Roger Schreiner. After being adopted by an American family and living in the U.S. more than 30 years, Schreiner was deported to Brazil, where he is living in the city of Niteroi. He speaks no Portuguese, has no family and few prospects.
The U.S. government disagrees, underscoring the increasingly hard line the Trump administration is taking with legal residents deemed deportable. U.S. adoption groups estimate that between 35,000 and 75,000 adoptees in the United States could be in such a situation today, many incorrectly believing they are already citizens. The Child Citizenship Act of 2000, signed by President Bill Clinton, aimed at streamlining the process by making citizenship automatic for children adopted from overseas. But there was an exception: For children already in America, only those under 18 when the law went into effect qualified.
Schreiner wasn't totally surprised. Soon after his legal troubles began, in 2004 he had been notified there was a deportation order against him. But that didn't always lead to removal during the administrations of Presidents George Bush and Barack Obama.
In handcuffs and accompanied by two agents, Schreiner said he was flown on a commercial flight from Phoenix to New York, where American Airlines officials didn't want to let him on the flight to Rio de Janeiro.
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