The way this story is laid out, you’ll find yourself flip-flopping from being a little sympathetic, to not so much, back to a little sympathetic, to throw him the hell out.
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(NEWSER) – A South Korean man flown to the US 37 years ago and adopted by an American couple at age 3 has been ordered deported back to a country that is completely alien to him, the AP reports. Adam Crapser is currently confined in an immigration detention center in Washington state pending his deportation. He waived an appeal during a hearing Monday because he is so desperate to get out of detention that he was even willing to go to a country where he does not speak the language or know the culture. Crapser’s plight mirrors those of thousands of others who were brought to the US but whose adoptive parents didn’t secure green cards or US citizenship for them. One group estimates 35,000 intercountry adoptees lack US citizenship.
Seven years after Crapser and his older sister were adopted, their parents abandoned them. The foster care system separated Crapser, 10 at the time, from his sister. When Crapser was 12, he moved in with Thomas and Dolly Crapser, their biological son, two other adoptees and several foster children. There, he was physically abused, Crapser has said. In 1991, the couple was arrested on charges of physical child abuse, sexual abuse and rape. Federal immigration officials say they became aware of Crapser after he applied to renew his green card two years ago: his criminal convictions, ranging from burglary to assault, made him potentially deportable under immigration law. Crapser got into trouble with the law after he broke into his parents’ home—it was, he said, to retrieve the Korean Bible and rubber shoes that came with him from the orphanage—and later it was for stealing cars and assaulting a roommate.
Nice outline. Where’s the article?
@Meerkat, click the tiny red AP link. 🙂
This is what is so frustrating about our “broken immigration system”. This guy was a LEGAL alien and he did things that were deportable offenses so he is being sent back. Okay. Fine. Illegal aliens do worse than what this guy did and aren’t deported even though they should not be here in the first place. They should be deported just for being here ILLEGALLY.
I have no qualms with having hearings on illegals that have special circumstances. Criminal record aside, if he’s “done his time” or “paid his dues” he should be awarded citizenship.
. . . unless he’s a Hillary supporter.
Canada has this problem as well. We’ve had a number of instances where children as young a 1 have immigrated to Canada with their parents. While growing up here they’ve gotten involved with criminal gangs and committed offenses that will trigger a deportation back to the home country (the cases that have made the news seem to be mostly from Jamaica). There is a huge difference in the deportation someone who immigrated at say 12 years or older (maybe a little less) and one who came when they were 1. The older one should know the difference between right and wrong and learnt that while still in the home country and especially they should know that one of the consequences of their actions could be a boot out of the country whereas a 1 year old’s actions are pretty much dictated by the environment they are brought up in which should make them the responsibility of new country. I know that sounds a little convoluted but I guess my point is the country that incubated the immigrant child from around infancy should take responsibility for that child as an adult. That’s why immigration should be one of the most important and stringent functions a government can have. Better a few of the best then a lot of the mediocre.
The 1 year old immigrant should be constantly reminded to behave, less he gets sent back to the hell-hole he came from. All of his life.
Sounds like Crapser crapped out, so they put him in the basket of deportables.