<Becky Belcore, Hope Huin, Cori McMillan, Adam Crapser, Jenny Kim and Samuel Kim (from left to right) pose for a photo after discussing the deportation trial>
"We Came to Stand with Adam"
Three Korean adoptees visited Oregon State to assist in stopping the deportation proceedings of Adam Crapser.
Jenny Kim and Samuel Kim from Korean American Coalition Oregon (KAC-OR) and Becky Belcore, Hope Huin, and Cori McMillan from the National Korean American Service & Education Consortium (NKASEC), met with Adam Crapser in the evening of Dec 8th.
Jenny Kim, president of KAC-OR, spoke of their visit, “Fellow Korean-American adoptees Belcore, Huin and McMillan came to Portland to show their support for Adam and to attend the trial. We had dinner and discussed measures to take in order to stop the deportation proceedings.
Kim further stated, “Our goal is to get more support from U.S. Senates in order to revise the Child Citizenship Act of 2000, which has been the source of problem for Adam’s deportation case”.
In 1979, Adam Crapser was adopted by U.S. citizen parents who later abandoned him to the State of Oregon when he was nine years old. Adopted again, he was abused physically and emotionally by his new adoptive parents and was eventually evicted from their home at the age of 16. Now 40 years old and a father, Adam faces deportation as neither of his adoptive parents had filed the paperwork necessary for his naturalization.
The Child Citizenship Act of 2000 is a federal law that allows certain foreign-born adopted children of U.S. citizens to acquire U.S. citizenship automatically once conditions set forth in the law are met. Children who were adopted before 2000 could only become U.S. citizens through their parents’ application.