I think it's a little unfair that she was deprived of the money. She's a little baby after all, and she's just been deprived of a future that was perhaps a little brighter than the one she will now live. Who knows, maybe her parents, being immigrants, may have needed to find their feet in a new life in a new country and the money could have helped them care for their daughter in times of desperation. We'll never know.

I suppose rules are rules, but I think a better rule would have been 'the BABY must be an American citizen', which is what she is.