Can foster children be placed with relatives you are illegal aliens?

September 22, 2024

At this point I don't know or care whether they are decent or not.

And their legal status is irrelevant to the situation other than the fact that the children are American children and have the rights and privileges that come with that.

These relatives are the second set of relatives that were evaluated for taking the children and as I said before the worker has a concern that they will flee if the situation gets worse and that is of concern.

I'm really tired of people thinking that because you are blood related to someone that you would be better off with them than with some "stranger"...Ex. There was a woman who recently killed her 10-month-old daughter after being under scrutiny with CPS. She cut her baby's arms off with a butcher knife! After following her for months they deemed her "ok" and now her baby is dead and her 2 other daughters have been taken away from their father because he failed to protect the baby. The safety and well-being of children are more important than blood relations.

I hope the parents of these kids get their "act together" and get them back but I don't think that the State should just dump them in the home of a relative just to get them off their caseload.

Well, the social worker is also passing judgement and her concern is baseless because anybody can flee to another country-undocumented or not.

You keep repeating that just because someone is blood related doesn’t mean the child is better off with them. If they can pass a background check and can care for the children and keep them safe, THAT IS ALL THAT MYTERS. Everything else is just you sticking your nose where it doesn’t belong and overstepping.

Maybe do some research. Illegal immigrants have rights, too. They can absolutely be considered as relative placements and if they have children, the have a right to custody and/or visitation just as much as parent who is a citizen.