This is the contemporary version of Nannygate, which ended in Janet Reno being appointed AG and sending Elian Gonzalez back to Cuba . . . and his father.

There have been treaties in place since 1990, signed by Latin American countries, that require that a child's citizenship derives from his/her parents' citizenships (both genetic parents unless there is a formal adoption or formal consent to single parenting and assumption of all responsibility of the genetic parent(s)).   It is a violation of the child's rights to deny him/her this.  Also, the Latin American countries agreed to provide elementary education, which they are not doing.