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I wish they wouldn't have let me in the country in 1972.

When I was four years old, I wish they were just saying, no, no, no, no, no.

You ain't adopting him, you ain't, you ain't bragging up here, you ain't, you ain't doing this.

But to bring me to the U.S. and live there for 49 years, and then all of a sudden just say,

hey, we putting you on our plane, you're leaving. I mean, that, that, that tore me up.

This is Una Raced, the deportation of adoptees in America, a podcast co-produced by

Focus Features and Tree Fort Media in support of the film, Blue Buy You. I'm your host,

Dino Ray Ramos, founder and editor of diaspora. In this five-part series, we're hearing real

stories from men and women who were internationally adopted by Americans and spent their entire lives

completely unaware that they were not American citizens themselves, until they were sent away.

This is a heartbreaking reality that affects more than 35,000 adult adoptees in the United States.

And yet, the majority of Americans have no idea this crisis is happening for so many.

Their stories deserve to be heard. In this episode, we'll hear two stories of two men,

both raised in the South, one from Texas and one from Georgia. Both now find themselves forced

to live far from the people in country they love. We begin with the story of Joe Nugent in his own words.

Well, my name started out as a Joe Nugent, that's in Beaumont, Texas.

I father and my mother, both U.S. citizens, they adopted me and changed my name to Nugent,

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