Thousands adopted to U.S. face deportation after decades without citizenship

The United States has brought hundreds of thousands of children from abroad to be adopted by American families. After several years, it however appears thousands of them have been left without citizenship, through a bureaucratic loophole that the government has been aware of for decades, and hasn’t fixed.

Some of these adoptees live in hiding, fearing that tipping off the government could prompt their removal back to the country the…