Trafficking Native Children: The Seamy Underbelly of U.S. Adoption Industry

Even worse, says Mason, is the blatant marketing and selling of Indian children by lawyers who make anywhere from $25,000 to copy00,000 in legal fees for these children. “Anyone can do the math and realize that this is an enormous industry in the trafficking of Indian children,” says Mason. “And they’re preying on poor, uneducated Native women who are in poverty and have no idea what’s going on and don’t know any better, which is precisely why ICWA was enacted in the first place. They are predators who do everything in secret to prevent the Indian Country Today Media Network.combiological fathers and the tribes from blocking the flow of income they receive off these adoptions.”

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