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every night and i can't imagine being separated from them. i spend every day with them. i watch them grow, i watch them learn every day and i can't imagine being away from them for a day. >> adam you have survived so much and the idea of -- that our immigration policy makes you vulnerable to this is stunningly inhumane. i home your story getting out there means we can get real policy change. thank you for joining us today. here in new york thank you to the panel. up next, the author of the new book on first lady michelle obama. the new s6 hits the stores and i'm like... whoa. open the box and... (sniffing) new phone smell. jump on a video chat with my friend. he's a real fan boy, so i can't wait to show this off.
citizenship. now at age 40 immigration seeks to send him back to korea, a country he doesn't know. the case exposed a major loophole in immigration law. two senators are pushing to amend the child citizenship act of 2000 to grant automatic u.s. citizenship to international adoptees regardless of age. it includes citizenship for those like adam. adam is part of the 16% of korean-born adoptees without a country. they were never naturalized as u.s. citizens and no longer korean citizens. joining me from oregon is adam. we want to note we're having audio difficulty and that's why adam has put on the orange head phones for us. so can you hear me? >> i can, good morning. >> good morning. can you talk to me. what was your reaction when i.c.e. knocked on your door and said they were opening these deportation proceedings? >> i was mortified. i didn't even know what to think.
about those experiences? >> yes, i speak every day to a gentleman in south korea who was deported back in 2009. first and foremost, he served in the u.s. military. he's about five years older than me but he went through almost exact ly exactly the same stuff i did. i couldn't believe it when i heard his story. >> adam, pause for a minute. he served his country in the u.s. military and was deported for these same reasons? >> yes, yes, he served in the u.s. military. after the military he was driving truck and his truck driving partner set him up and put some contraband in the truck and e he got stopped in a check point. that's what he was deported for. he deals with the physical
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and placeed with a new family in oregon. there he describes experiencing heinous sadistic abuse until 1991 when his oregon parents were charged with 34 counts of rape and criminal mistreatment of their foster children. both were convicted on several counts with the foster even found guilty of sexual abuse. but he served only 90 days in prison. when adam was 16, he was kicked out of the house and began life on his own. he was forced to sleep in homeless shelters and in his car. he contemplated suicide. one day he returned to his adoptive parent's house to retrieve his only belongings from korea. his rubber shoes and korean language bible. he was arrested and pled guilty to burglary. he served 25 months in prison for break ging into what had been his own home, 25 months. remember the father convicted o of sexual abuse only served 90 days. those 25 months would become. the first of a series of criminal convictions including
their budget depends on deporting people from the united states. so even if it's inhuman, as it is in this case that's irrelevant to i.c.e. they have quo toes to meet which is why we need to have comprehensive immigration reform. >> exactly. >> this is another example of how absolutely broken the system is. and shame on congress, shame on the executive for not doing this. this is inhuman. >> adam let me come back to you on that. we heard shame on the executive, which is homeland security, i.c.e. coming under this notion that somehow this is someone else's homeland that needs to be protected from you. you are part of at least three dozen international adoptees from places like thailand brazil south korea, some of them are people who you know who either have already been deported or who are vulnerable. can you tell us a little bit
as we were talking in the commercial, you were saying people may not understand you have to go through a whole process as a parent. >> he came over with a korean passport. e we brought him over and three months later, we had to file for his citizenship and had a hearing. until then, he was still a korean citizen. at that point, he became a u.s. citizen. so clearly there are a number of other things that if the parents are not adopting in good faith u can make these terribly inhumane situations that adam faces. >> when you say inhumane citizens this is part -- this is a story i think we often don't know about immigration, but i just keep thinking does i.c.e. have nothing better to do? the inhumanity of i.c.e. is so regularly exposed to us. >> this is their job, this is what congress tells them that their job is. so deporting people is good business for i.c.e. the way i.c.e. is structured,
unlawful firearm possession and assault. in 2001 adam was off parole turning his life around. he's a 40-year-old married father of three with another baby on the way next month. in an interview, adam said i did thing things the best that i could and i made a lot of mistakes. having survived a disrupted adoption, horrific abuse, jail time adam is now facing what may prove the most difficult challenge of his life. being forced to leave the only country he knows. adam, who came to the united states as a toddler, could be deported because neither family nor the adoption agency that brokered his arrival filed the pap paperwork for his green. card or u.s. citizenship. when he asked his parents for adoption parents or birth certificate, he was repeatedly denied. in february adam vefreceived a visit from the immigration and customs enforcement officers. the agency was opening