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150,000 Koreans in U.S. subject to Trump's deportation order: Report
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So does this mean that there are 20,000 Koreans listed that are registered for citizenship but are just stuck in processing, and the remaining 120,000 are here illegally? If so I can see why they are deporting the 120,000 but, I don't understand why they are deporting the 20,000 as if they are here legally they should have visas showing their status of being here.
There's a really fucked up issue in Korean adoption that was fixed a while back. Basically, once a parent finished the process and had custody of the child in the US, the parent needed to do an additional bit of paperwork to give the child US citizenship.
They closed the loophole a long time ago, but many(20 fucking thousand potentially) adult adoptees don't even know their parents didn't bother to finish the process.
Now the Korean international adoption processes is mostly closed, cause it was an exploitive nightmare that was more like selling babies than anything.
And yeah the other are just people overstaying a visa, or stayed past the point of needing a visa. 90 days.
The options are not "seeking citizenship" and "here illegally". Most of those people are here on student visas or work visas of one kind of another.
That's understandable I forgot about work/student non-immigrant visa's, these still fall under a legal visa, I don't understand why people with legal visas are being the target. They are in the country legally, there shouldn't be any grounds for deportation for those. Being said after looking into it, it doesn't seem like they need a reason to deport valid visa holders, which is screwed up honestly.
They have already announced plans to deport the Haitians in Springfield that are here legally too. I don't know why anyone is shocked by this.
It seems unlikely to me that there are 120k or 130k South Koreans in the United States without legal immigration status. They probably have visas that can be revoked more easily.
I did a little research on this, and this is insane. The current legal code (8 USC 1201(i)) states
and to top it off, it also contains at the end
This sounds like it means that if there is any type of other thing happening (such as an accusation that you broke the law or are here illegally), they can just say "ok visa revoked get out" with very limited possibility to a legal review
I can understand that being the case for actual criminals but, that seems super extreme.
Being said though, 9 FAM 403.11 is the declassified guidelines that it seems officials are supposed to use, and those state:
Overall, that's fucked.
I'm assuming it's because they aren't white, which is a sad thing to say/think.
Racism, in the United States? Stay it ain't so!