Korean-American Adoptee Reported to Have Committed Suicide 5 Years After Deportation

NextShark (an online magazine that describes itself as focusing on the Asian youth market) has reported that Phillip Clay, a 42-year old Korean-American who was adopted by an American family at age 10 and deported to Korea in 2012, recently committed suicide.  The article notes that Adam Crapser, another Korean-American adoptee whose deportation earlier this year received a fair amount of media attention attended the funeral, which was held by Holt Children’s Services, the adoption agency for Korean children placed with overseas families.  Crapser had been adopted at age 3. Neither had completed the naturalization process, thus leaving them vulnerable to deportation despite their particularly nonexistent ties to their country of birth.

-JKoh