Looking for something unrelated in DoS FOIA reading room and came across this little tidbit from 2008:

''' … "Minnesota is a long-time leader in international adoptions, with the nation's highest per capita rate of international

adoptions. In 2007, Guatemala and Vietnam were, respectively, the second and sixth leading source countries for

international adoptions by American families." '''

Klobuchar's meeting with the families on Saturday was hosted by Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota, and it included

representatives from Children's Home Society & Family Services and Bethany Christian Services of Minnesota.

https://foia.state.gov/FOIALIBRARY/SearchResults.aspx?searchText=%22minnesota%20is%20a%20long%20time%20leader%22

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With so many 'newcomers', why is Minnesota also the leader in international adoptions? Another way of heisting the $?