Thread: State Places Gag Order on Grandparents of Faith Cephus

Oregon DHS has now placed a gag order on the Grandparents who are battling to keep their grandaughter from being sent to Mexico to live with unrelated strangers. If the grandparents were to continue to speak publicly, I suspect the Oregon DHS would whisk the child off to Mexico (Oregon's equivalent of Siberia) as quickly as you can blink.

This is Soviet style politics at it's worst. The State of Oregon doesn't want the public to know what they are doing, so they are stopping the free speech rights of the concerned family members.

The Cephus' are good people trying to keep their grandaughter from being shipped to Mexico to live with people she doesn't know and is not related to.

In the spirit of diversity and political correctness, The Peoples Republic of Oregonastan is considering deporting an American citizen, with no familial ties to Mexico.

Guess what State of Oregon, you bunch of Communist scum, you can't shut me up!! You can't place a gag order on me or the other citizens of this socialist state. I can say what ever I please and I say you stink Governor Kulongoski and Dr. Bruce Goldberg.

You are so afraid of the decisions you make that you want no light shined on it. When the light is on, you scatter like the cockroaches you are!

We need you to make the phones ring off the hook!!!! Even if you live outside of Oregon, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE call Governor's Advocacy Office line at 503-945-6904. You can also reach the supreme leader of the Oregon Communist Department of Human Services, Dr. Bruce Goldberg at DHS.Directorsoffice@state.or.us and the Communications Officer, Greg Parker at greg.w.parker@state.or.us.

If you are in Oregon, please also contact your State Legislators and ask them to stop this insanity, now! You can find your legislator at http://www.leg.state.or.us/findlegsltr/

Here's my original post about this horrific story:

In the only state that rivals California for all out nuttiness, the State of Oregon is once again considering deporting an American born citizen to Mexico.

Less than 6 months after the State made national headlines for trying to send an American born child to Mexico to live with family he had never met, they are at it again. Only this time, the child could be taken from her paternal Grandparents. Grandparents who by all accounts, are providing a superior living situation for the little girl.

Like last time, the deportation plans were triggered by the attempts by the guardians to adopt the child. Unlike last time, these are the American citizen grandparents of the American born child. Unlike the last case, the child is not at all related to the adults the state wishes to send the child to live with.

While millions are fleeing Mexico to come here, the state of Oregon wants to strip an American citizen of her birth rights and deport her to a country where she knows no one and will not have the same rights as a natural born Mexican citizen!

I can't make this stuff up. After you read this article, if you feel this is a complete travesty please call Oregon Department of Human Services and let them know. They can be reached at the Governor's Advocacy Office line at 503-945-6904.

Even if you live elsewhere, make your voice heard so this kind of thing doesn't spread to your state. Keep in mind, at least one child died after the State of Oregon sent American children out of the country to live with people they had never met. DIED!

We stopped them from deporting baby Gabriel, we can stop them again! (Search Gabriel Allred)
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DHS embroiled in another child deportation case

Story Published: Apr 9, 2008 at 5:18 PM PDT
Story Updated: Apr 10, 2008 at 12:27 PM PDT

Video of this story

http://www.katu.com/news/17444484.html?video=YHI&t=a

By Dan Tilkin and KATU Web Staff

http://www.katu.com/news/17444484.html

HILLSBORO, Ore. – The state of Oregon may try to take a 2-year-old girl from her grandparents in Hillsboro and send her to Mexico to live with relatives of her half-siblings – people she doesn't know.

State officials say they aim to keep the three children together, a move that the grandparents, Luz and Maurice Cephus, are fighting.

The girl at the center of the conflict is 23-month-old Faith Cephus. Her grandparents, (pictured below) who became the girl's certified foster parents, want to adopt her but are living in fear of losing her.

"Her being our blood granddaughter, we thought it was a shoe-in," Maurice Cephus said. "We have a home here. We have an ample amount of space for her. We love her. She's our son's daughter."

But it is not that simple.

To understand why, you have to get a handle on her complicated family tree.

Faith's mother and father are both in prison and are on the verge of losing their parental rights.

That's why the girl lives with her paternal grandparents.

But Faith's mother also has two other children in Oregon, which are Faith's half-brother and half-sister.

The father of those kids is also in prison, and his parents live in Mexico City.

The state is examining whether to send all three children south to Mexico City together, where Faith would live with people she's not related to.

Greg Parker, a spokesman for the Department of Human Services, said the process is just beginning.

"Should siblings remain together? What weight do we give biological grandparents?" Parker said, describing some of the questions involved in such a case. "So it's a tough decision, but it's a decision that we have to make every day, and we start with what's best for the child. Right now it's a little premature to talk about that."

The state said Faith's grandparents need to wait for the process to move forward, adding that a number of court hearings still need to take place before a final decision is made.

That's of no comfort to the Cephuses.

"We're fit to be tied at this present time," Maurice Cephus said. "It's really gotten out of hand. And we don't know what else to do."

Oh goodie, I'll pile on to this subject...

I have a friend of a friend, that recently was interviewing for a position with our State DHS... After talking about what the state of our human service programs is like, and what the current 'hot topics' are there, she affirmed to me, that the DHS is engaged in client 'hot potato' with the Federal government. This was relayed by the friend that was still working for the DHS.

What I mean, is, that the state human service agencies - which, of course, are always under budget pressure and stretched beyond their resource - try to shift these people into Federal programs; either by denying their state service applications and telling them to go apply for Social Security, or just outright denying anything they can get away with.

I asked, 'do they know they are doing this?' Answer: "sure".
'Do they think that is the right thing to do?' Answer: "No".

I can tell you that while some here like to pound their chests and brag about our local government, my opinion tends to differ. I am not impressed.

Side point - Lars Larson (based in Portland OR) is on Dobbs as a guest panelist this afternoon, and I know he'll bring it up.

The point to this whole story is, if the grandparents hadn't contacted the media Faith would have been sent to Mexico. Only public outcry and public scrutiny can put this horrible injustice to rest.

They, the State of Oregon, loath public input. They want no oversight whatsoever. That's why they placed the gag order.

Our governor is as big a joke as our President. As a result, his administration is as poorly managed and out of control as Bush's administration. This state is literally falling apart and Governor Ted Kulongoski is flying around campaigning for Hillary Clinton. Ted fiddles while Rome burns...

The Governor could stop this right now if wanted to. He is so beholden to the Public Employees unions that they tell him what to do. Who's the boss anyway Ted?