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The US is one of the few countries that, even though we export about 2,500 kids out of

the US for adoption into other countries, it's expected that those children get citizenship

in those countries that they're exported to. But when the US imports kids, they don't give

them citizenship. It doesn't make sense.

This is unerased. The deportation of adoptees in America, a podcast co-produced by focus

features and tree fort media in support of the film, Blue Bayou. 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.

This is Christopher Larson's story, in his own words.

My name is Christopher Larson. I am a 50-year-old Vietnamese born. I'm currently residing

in Seattle, Washington. So in 1975, during the fall of Saigon, when the communist was

taking over a bit, I was evacuated during Operation Babylift. They think that I was about

four years old since I didn't have any type of documentation. They just kind of guessed

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