Kelly Rutherford Hopes The White House Will Help Bring Her Children Home

Actress Kelly Rutherford is still battling to bring her two children, Hermes, 8 and Helena, 5, back home to the United States once and for all. Kelly and her ex-husband have been fighting in court over the custody of their kids. A judge ordered that they live in France with their father, forcing Kelly to fly back and forth to see them for her scheduled visits.

Kelly has been fighting in the court and is now taking her battle to the White House. Her attorney shared this week, “This is a political problem for President Obama and a constitutional problem for the courts. The president recently issued an executive order declaring that children born in this country to illegal immigrant parents must be allowed to remain in this country. Mr. Obama specifically talked about the importance of mothers and children being allowed to stay together in America. How could Kelly and her children not be entitled to at least the same legal protections?” She added, “The federal court in New York that is currently reviewing this case has acknowledged this is an unprecedented situation, which means a ruling against Kelly’s children would put countless defenseless American children at risk for being shipped like luggage to live in a foreign country where they have no citizenship, and no rights as Americans.”

A petition has started and hopes to reach 100,000 signatures. The petition reads: At ages 2 and 5, Kelly Rutherford’s children were forced by a California judge to live in France with their German father, (nobody is French) after he claimed his U.S. visa was revoked, and he could not enter the U.S. The children’s appointed counsel said they should remain in the U.S., but the judge sent the children to France, solely because the father claimed he could not return to the U.S., even though NO evidence has been produced from any American official stating that the father was EVER denied entry into the U.S., and the father refused to request a visa. Instead, he filed court papers in Monaco, causing the children to be declared “habitual residents” subject solely to Monaco law. The father also recently filed papers seeking to strip Kelly of all parental rights.

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