Colorado Family Fights to Keep Their Daughter from Deportation
Several years after adopting a girl in Peru, a Colorado couple is fighting to keep her on American soil. Amy
and Marco Becerra met their child Angela several days after she was born to a developmentally disabled woman. In 2017, a Peruvian court allowed them to legally adopt the girl. Angela made it to the United States in March of this year, after months of legal holdups. The child is in the country under a tourist visa, which expires at the end of August. As the family has weighed the option of moving back to Peru, or raising Angela as an undocumented alien, they have reached out to immigration attorneys without success. They anticipate receiving an explanatory letter from the government soon. Amy Becerra tells KDVR, “It’s inconceivable that a child of two citizen parents would have to live out their life as an undocumented alien in this country.”