Reply To: Should citizens be able to adopt non-citizens at the border?

On a serious note, there are also many family members of young children arriving alone at the border who would be willing to provide foster homes/guardianship for those children. In this case, HHS is correct regarding the importance of doing intensive review of proposed family placements (including DNA matching) in some cases) to assure that these are truly family members and that they will be able to provide a good home to these children. This can take weeks or months and while the process is less complex than a formal adoption, may still be challenging from a legal perspective.