ICE crackdown leaves many international adoptees scrambling to prove their citizenship

As many as 200,000 international adoptees lack citizenship, often because their parents never completed the naturalization process for them. And even with the right paperwork, many face the threat of racial profiling. The post ICE crackdown leaves many international adoptees scrambling to prove their citizenship appeared first on Sahan Journal.

By: Anna Lee

Outlets: Sahan Journal

Published: July 13, 2026

Words: 1,789

Last Updated: 2 days, 3 hours ago

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It was a chilly January morning when a group of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents walked into a Hennepin County clinic and started asking about employee Hannah Beyers.

The officers did not explain why they were asking and left when they realized it was Beyers’ day off. After she learned about the visit, Beyers speculated it was a matter of racial profiling — she was adopted from South Korea decades earlier. She has …

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