The goal should be to educate, from early on, all the foreign-born children in our schools in the language of their adopted land.

At the time, federal law prevented any family from adopting more than two foreign-born children.

In 2010, there were about 60,750 foreign-born children of illegal immigrants attending public schools.

Q. How long does it take to adopt a foreign-born child?

Q. What's the estimated cost of adopting a foreign-born child?

Imagine being a foreign-born child struggling to learn English from a teacher who does not speak it fluently.

For a foreign-born child, that can soar to $30,000.

In order to bring a foreign-born child whom you've adopted to the United States, you must meet certain requirements.

For example, foreign-born children of persons who became naturalized citizens between April 14, 1802 and 1854, were aliens.

It said that about 11,500 were foreign-born children who came into the United States either legally or illegally.