Adam Crapser, born in South Korea but adopted in the U.S., says he’s ready to be deported back to his country of origin despite no memories of ever living there.
Crapser has been held in a detention center for nine months awaiting deportation after being arrested in February and serving a 60-day sentence for menacing and attempted coercion. According to The Associated Press, Crapser's extensive criminal history is being given by the feds as a reason for the decision to deport him even though he has lived in the United States since he was 3 years old.
Crapser’s adoptive parents never obtained citizenship for him, then abandoned him and his sister seven years after adopting them. The siblings were separated and Crapser ended up in the foster care system, where he was abused.
Despite several brushes with the law that his attorney says left him with PTSD, Crapser married and has two children, who will be left behind when he is deported, the AP reported.
Despite his unfamiliarity with South Korea, Crapser told The New York Times he is ready to go and make a life there. He has met his birth mother and other relatives, and has a job lined up with his stepfather’s construction company. His wife and children plan to join him there after she, a Vietnamese immigrant, becomes a citizen in a few months.
After breaking into his abusive foster parents’ home to retrieve items he brought from the South Korean orphanage, Crapser also had convictions for assault and possession of a weapon. These charges caused U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to classify him as a threat to public safety.
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