Senators push for more efficient Haiti adoptions

Of all the children in Haiti before the massive earthquake, 380,000 of them were orphans. Now that number has increased since the quake and the U.S. is looking to help as much as possible. Several children that have since come to the U.S. are here on humanitarian waivers, due to their official paperwork being lost in the quake. No new children will be sent to the U.S., unless they were already in the adoption process. The ones already entered will go first, and this should help alleviate some of the orphans. However, for those children not entered into the system are at risk for being victims of trafficking. This is a serious problem and as the time lingers on the risks go up, so it is respectable to take orphan children out of this situation.

By: Lindsay Weidling