6 year old girl to be removed from foster parents because shes 1.5% Native American

[UK2K]

Six-year-old Lexi has only ever know Summer and Rusty Page as her parents.

But any day now the Santa Clara, California, child could be legally ripped from her loving foster home despite Rusty and Page's fight to keep her with them.

Lexi is one-and-a-half per cent Choctaw Native American.

Because of the 'Indian Child Welfare Act' - a federal law passed in the 1970's aimed to protect the best interests of Native American children - she must live with Native American parents.

Now, Summer and Rusty are fighting to keep the child they have tried for more than two years to adopt with them.

'Lexi doesn't know another home. She finally knows what mom and dad means and they want to take that away from her. and we can't stand idly by while that happens,' Rusty told Fox 11.

Summer and Rusty also have a nine-year-old, another six-year-old and a two-year-old. Lexi is the family's only foster child.

'This little girl, we are her home. This is her family and that can all be rocked tomorrow,' Summer said.

The Page family took the case to court, but their most recent emergency stay was lifted.

Department of Children and Family Services agents were expected to take Lexi from her home at 10am on Sunday but postponed after a large group of protesters took a stand against her removal.

The family is under 'specific orders' not to tell Lexi or their other children what is happening.

'As a grandmother, it's ripping my heart. It's ripping me apart to see Lexi has been a part of our family for almost five years, and she's not going to understand what's going on.

'The children are not going to understand the separation. This is going to destroy these children,' Tari Kelly, Lexi's foster grandmother, told ABC 7.

The Choctaw tribe has decided to place Lexi with extended non-blood relatives in Utah, who are not Native Americans and will not be living on the reservation.

Speaking of racist...

Anyone find this a bit extreme? Heard this on the radio and I have to say, I'm very confused. This being the time of 'end racial division', to have this still be a law is... odd.

[iamgine]

Meh she'll live with a native american and be fine.

[NumberSix]

Is this not in blatant violation of the 14th amendment?

[UK2K]

Meh she'll live with a native american and be fine.

But she won't

The Choctaw tribe has decided to place Lexi with extended non-blood relatives in Utah, who are not Native Americans and will not be living on the reservation.

[JohnnySic]

1.5% lol

[Im Still Ballin]

It's a % game

[aj1987]

Is this not in blatant violation of the 14th amendment?

How so?

It's retarded though. Taking a kid away from a loving family.

[NumberSix]

How so?

Equal protection of the law. The government can't treat people differently because of what race they are.

[Nick Young]

This is the kind of pro-segregationist law that the identity politics obsessed-Dems love.

[UK2K]

This is the best part. As if big brother doesn't already know what's best for that kid, they know what's best for your other kids as well...

The family is under 'specific orders' not to tell Lexi or their other children what is happening.

[Nick Young]

These laws came from the political party responsible for creating the KKK, interning American citizens in concentration camps due to their ancestry, and fighting AGAINST Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's civil rights movement.

What else can be expected from them? Democrats love racial segregation more than anything.

[west_tip]

This is the best part. As if big brother doesn't already know what's best for that kid, they know what's best for your other kids as well...

I can imagine how traumatizing this is gonna be for that girl with no forewarning and no way for her to come to terms with this removal.

One minute she's gonna be playing with her Barbie dolls in the only home she has ever known the next she will be escorted out of the house by some Big Government stooge into a car, her whole life turned upside down.

My daughter is 7 so I can imagine how devastating it would be for someone of that age to have her family ripped away from her. She is gonna have a difficult time growing into a well adjusted adult, she is gonna have trust and abandonment issues and think that everyone who loves her will eventually leave her. Heartbreaking stuff.

[Dresta]

"Department of Children and Family Services"

Hello Soviet Union. The nationalisation of childhood, arbitrary powers for the State to take children away from their parents, ridiculous sounding agencies that are right from the USSR handbook--this place isn't close to being a free country any more, it really isn't.

[iamgine]

I can imagine how traumatizing this is gonna be for that girl with no forewarning and no way for her to come to terms with this removal.

One minute she's gonna be playing with her Barbie dolls in the only home she has ever known the next she will be escorted out of the house by some Big Government stooge into a car, her whole life turned upside down.

My daughter is 7 so I can imagine how devastating it would be for someone of that age to have her family ripped away from her. She is gonna have a difficult time growing into a well adjusted adult, she is gonna have trust and abandonment issues and think that everyone who loves her will eventually leave her. Heartbreaking stuff.

Overreaction

[Labissiere]

This is the kind of pro-segregationist law that the identity politics obsessed-Dems love.

What are you talking about? I am a democrat and I hate this. She should 100% stay with the family that has been raising her.