#KeepAdamHome: Stop Adam Crapser's Deportation Now

Cross-posted from 18 Million Rising


In 1979, Adam Crapser arrived in the United States as a Korean adoptee. Accompanied by his older sister, Adam's life in this country quickly became a nightmare.

First adopted by the Wright family in Michigan, Adam found himself the victim of physical abuse. In 1986 and without completing Adam's naturalization papers, the Wrights relinquished their parental rights to county services in an effort to "rehome" the adopted siblings. As wards of the state, the county separated Adam from his sister and sent him to live in a group home.

One year into life in the group home, Adam was adopted the by Thomas and Dolly-Jean Crapser in Oregon who -- along with their biological children -- subjected Adam to unspeakable physical, emotional, and sexual abuse and torture. Four long years later, the Crapsers were arrested, charged, and plead guilty to multiple counts of child abuse, child sex abuse, and child rape.

Pending Deportation of Korean American Adoptee Highlights Major Loophole in Immigration Law

By Jenn Fang. Cross-posted from Reappropriate.


Adam Crasper as a child. (Photo via Gazillion Strong)

By his own admission, Adam Thomas Crasper has had a difficult journey; but through it all, he has worked hard to create what he calls a "a semblance of a ‘normal' life."

In 1979, Adam arrived in the United States with his older sister as a transnational and transracial Korean American adoptee. Through most of his childhood — and through two placements — Adam was forced to endure unspeakable physical and emotional abuse. In 1991, Adam's adoptive parents, Thomas Francis Crasper and Dolly-Jean Crasper, were arrested, charged and ultimately plead guilty to multiple counts of child rape, child sex abuse, and child abuse. Adam is a survivor of the Craspers' violence.

Adam's life bears the scars of that torture and what it took to survive; but, Adam has emerged today as a married father of three, with a fourth child due in May. He is, by all accounts, living that "normal" American life.

Yet, that's not how the federal government sees it. In January of this year, the Department of Homeland Security served Adam with deportation papers. In just one month, Adam will face a hearing regarding deportation to a country he has never known.