Cenk Uygur
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Girl Removed From Foster Family Of Because She's Native American
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March 23, 2016
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March 23, 2016
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6:13Now PlayingA six year old girl has been taken away from her foster family of four years. She was removed because she is 1/64 Choctaw Indian, and her biological family used the Indian Child Welfare Act to get her back. Cenk Uygur, Hannah Cranston (ThinkTank), and Hasan Piker (Pop Trigger) hosts of The Young Turks discuss.
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“A 6-year-old girl was removed from the California home of the foster family she has lived with for four years because she has a tiny sliver of Native American heritage — despite resistance from her foster parents and their tens of thousands of supporters.
Rusty and Summer Page of Santa Clarita, California, have long fought to gain custody of Lexi, 6, who is 1.56 percent Choctaw Native American. That figure means that Lexi's home placement is dictated by the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978.
That law "seeks to keep American Indian children with American Indian families," according to its own language.
The child's birth parents struggled with substance abuse, according to court documents. Her father, who had a criminal history, never lived on a Choctaw reservation and didn't have any social, political, or cultural ties to the tribe, according to the court documents. But officials determined that Lexi is 1/64th Choctaw based on his ancestry.”
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