Americans adopted this South Korean man when he was 3. Now 41, hes being deported.
Adam Crapser was born in South Korea, but, when he was 3 years old, an American couple adopted him.
Until recently, he lived in Vancouver, Wash., with his daughters and his pregnant wife. He has a son by an ex-girlfriend. He used to own a barbershop, but decided to become a stay-at-home dad, sometimes playing guitar and ukulele and watching a rescue dog.
But that will all soon change Crapser is being deported back to South Korea, away from his family, away from the place hes spent 37 of his 41 years of life.
Hes being held in an immigration detention center in Tacoma, Wash.
He will be deported as soon as Immigration and Customs Enforcement makes the necessary arrangements, Crapsers attorney Lori Walls told the Associated Press. Adam, his family, and advocates are heartbroken at the outcome.
Crapsers deportation is a sad denouement to a life in the United States thats been anything but easy.
After being abandoned near Seoul, Crapser and his older sister were adopted by an unnamed couple. All he brought with him across the ocean were a pair of green rubber shoes, a Korean-language Bible and a stuffed dog.
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