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  • While DHS takes heat, Mexican grandmother eager about Gabriel

    11/10/2007 7:30:46 AM PST · by Inspectorette · 34 replies · 269+ views
    KATU-TV, Portland, OR ^ | 11/09/07 | JOseph B> Frazier
    PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - In the blue-collar town of Toledo near Oregon's coast, Steve and Angela Brandt are dreading a knock on the door that could mean they will never again see Gabriel Allred, 2, whom they raised from infancy. He was American-born to a Mexican father and an American mother, one a now-deported sex offender, the other a meth addict, and both stripped of parental rights. Now the boy may be returned to Mexico, to a grandmother who didn't know until last year that he existed. The Brandts are headed to court, but in adoption matters blood ties can...