{"id":26321,"date":"2019-05-08T05:24:22","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T09:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/?p=26321"},"modified":"2019-05-16T14:01:44","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T18:01:44","slug":"trump-administration-wants-to-separate-this-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2019\/05\/trump-administration-wants-to-separate-this-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration wants to separate this family"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Elad Dvash-Banks, left, and his husband, Andrew, pose for photos with their twin sons, Ethan, center right, and Aiden in their LA apartment <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The U.S. State Department appealed a Ninth Circuit court decision<\/a> granting birthright citizenship to Ethan Dvash-Banks, the child of a same-sex bi-national couple living in Los Angeles, California. The Trump administration is saying that a child born to an American father is not in fact American and shouldn\u2019t be allowed on U.S. soil. If the administration gets its way, the Dvash-Banks family will effectively be torn apart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A federal judge in Los Angeles ruled that the United States State Department was wrong to deny citizenship to the twin son<\/a> of the married couple. The State Department had only conferred citizenship status to his twin brother Aiden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each boy was conceived with donor eggs and the sperm from a different father \u2014 one an American, the other an Israeli citizen \u2014 but born by the same surrogate mother minutes apart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n