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12 Haitians love cold as they await adoption in Emsworth

February 24, 2010

Just last week, efforts by the McMutrie sisters to bring a second group of 12 children to the U.S. ended in failure. And the Haitian government, which recently arrested 10 Baptist missionaries for trying to bring 33 undocumented children into the Dominican Republic, has clamped down on out-of-country adoptions.

The fear of child trafficking is palpable in Haiti, where on Saturday angry men temporarily blocked a U.S. group with six Haitian children cleared for adoption at the airport as they were preparing to leave for the United States. They are scheduled to leave Haiti today.

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