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Other organizations stated ten days ago, please stop the pressure for international adoption, because this opens the doors not only for adoption, but also for crime. the u.n. and haitian government in the same line as the government of haiti stopped to bring out children eight days ago. we have to keep the children in here. we have to try to reunion families. we have to trace these families and in the meanwhile give children safe shelter, and not separating children from their existing families ...

Facts. the facts are they gave them inducements that werent true. they took the children without proper paperwork or follow haitian law. they did not hire a local american attorney or haitian attorney to assist them in filling outs paperwork. the leader admits she had no idea how to do it. it is a lack of respect for the law. >> some would say these people are naive or dumb but the fact is that parents can legally abandon kids and theres no indication that the church members were paying to take ...

Best for children all over the world. it cant be the best intent to bring children abroad to separate them from their existing families. this is dealing with a terrible situation of the parents, and this is dealing with hope if youre promised to bring them to paradise. >> basically in the best interests of the children, if the best interest is to stay where they are in haiti right now, not allow them to go to the dominican republic or move on to the united states? >> its not only the issue of 33...

Pennsylvania come back with 50-some odd kids. >> i dont think thats really what happened. i think the united states government, the state department, put together very reasonable provisos if you will. parole and also the followup of all visas that had already been in the works for adopted children. there are approximately 800 children being adopted by american families and probably another 6,000, to 7,000 for other countries. all of those childrens have been assigned to families this is not a ru...

Theyre trying to stabilize that, and the country processes adoptions. so they first have to stabilize their country and then process adoptions. >> larry: so t-boz will have a tough time? >> shes going to have a tough time, but there are things she can do, larry, in the meantime. >> larry: like? >> she can start researching, as shes doing right now, adoptions. if she really wants to adopt from haiti, she may consider adopting an african-american child thats waiting in the united states and do so ...

>> reporter: she told me her group first met a haitian pastor by chance as they arrived in the country last week and he helped them gather the children. >> we felt like it was a very god-appointed meeting. >> reporter: he banned fast-track adoptions just after the earthquake and put a stop on haitian kids leaving without official paperwork. the move was an effort to stop the risk of kids being sold for adoption or sold into child abuse rings. he said he believed the americans had committed a cri...

Came after the earthquake. >> larry: dixie, if youve been watching or listening to the show, what advice do you have for t-boz, who apparently now cannot adopt while theres this hold on in haiti, who wants to adopt? what advice do you have for her? >> im hoping haitian adoptions will start up again. but were going to have to -- right now its in chaos. the country is in chaos. and adoptions is the least important thing, im sure, in the haitian government mind. theyre still trying to dig out. and ...

Here today, i can probably get some information and see if i can help move things further along, if its even possible at this point. >> larry: im sure you will. marty, can we adopt a child from haiti now? >> well, right now the country is officially closed. that means if you have not had the paperwork in process and going, basically, it is -- its -- youre done. >> larry: it would seem they would be open to it. >> well, they are. but you have to realize, the country is still instable, and theyre ...

Families in france that have not left yet, and were negotiating with the french government to get them out. and ive got three children that came after the earthquake. >> larry: dixie, if youve been watching or listening to the show, what advice do you have for t-boz, who apparently now cannot adopt while theres this hold on in haiti, who wants to adopt? what advice do you have for her? >> im hoping haitian adoptions will start up again. but were going to have to -- right now its in chaos. the co...

Is the government supportive of haitis decision, michelle, to put new adoptions on hold? >> yes, at this time in the immediate aftermath of this cataclysmic earthquake, haiti has decided that their first priority is to identify the children that have been separated from their families and work to locate those families and reunite the children with their families, rather than -- >> larry: any indication -- im sorry, go ahead. >> well, rather than focusing in the first instance on thinking about s...