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A Purple Heart Recipient Should Not Have to Self-Deport
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to the PTSD he suffered after being shot during military action in Panama. That's what happened to my brother PTSD from Vietnam and drugs. It's unbelievable. I'm still in disbelief that this has actually happened. Park said in a phone interview from Incheon early Wednesday morning I know I made my mistakes, but it's not like I was a violent criminal. It's not like I'm going around robbing people at gunpoint or hurting anyone. It was self-induced because of the problems I had Asked to comment on Park. Department of Homeland Security. Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs, tricia McLaughlin said Park has an extensive criminal history and has been given a final removal order. Get this over here. I'm reading from the newspaper OK, all right, the option to self-deport. Park said he suffered from PTSD. Who didn't? Who came back from a war, an addiction in the aftermath of being wounded when it was part of the US forces that invaded Panama in 1989 to dispose of the nation's de facto leader, general Manuel Noruego, but now Park. Manuel Norrego, but now Park.
Speaker 1:A legal immigrant is targeted by federal authorities in President Trump's recent immigration raids that have prompted widespread protests in Los Angeles and across the nation. A non-citizen is eligible for naturalization if they've served honorably in the US military for at least a year. Park served less than a year before he was wounded and honorably discharged. Since 2002, more than 158,000 immigrants served. Members have become US citizens as of 2021,. The Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Homeland Security are responsible for tracking deported veterans to make sure they can still access their VA benefits.
Speaker 1:Park's parents divorced when he was a toddler and his mother emigrated from South Korea to the United States. He followed her a year later. They lived in Koreatown, moved to Panorama City and then Van Nuys. He graduated from Notre Dame High School which is amazing and Sherman Oaks in 1988. So let's just say this guy is a veteran, ok. So what do we hear about that? What do we think about that? You know I? Anyway, it's just so terrible what's happening. Struggling at first to learn English and assimilate with his classmates, he eventually became part of the Southern California skateboarding and surfing scene of the 1980s, which is when television editor Josh Belson met him. They have been close friends ever since. He's always got a smile, a very kind of vivacious energy about him, said Belson, who attended a high school near when they met. He was the kind of kid you wanted to be around.
Speaker 1:Okay, he joined the military. When he graduated, okay, the army provided not only turning him into a man, but also providing him with the GI Bill so he could go to college later and they'll pay for it. The fact he did believe in the country the United States, he said. So I felt I was doing something honorable. I was very proud when I joined the military.
Speaker 1:Okay, they were deployed to Panama where, he said, he experienced a firefight the first thing there. He was carrying an M16. When they raided the house of one of the witches, noriega allegedly followed, he said they saw a voodoo worship room with a body parts and a cross painted in the blood on floors. Anyway, so this is who we deport. This is who we want to get rid of Veterans who serve for us.
Speaker 1:You know, like as I said earlier with regarding you know everything how my grandparents came to this country, know, and they came in and you know they didn't get their citizenships right away and guess what? They would have been thrown out, they would or had to self-deport and been in one of the camps. So you know, I share about this all the time because these things really affect me emotionally. You know that someone who served in our armies, like my father, my brother and my husband. You know, if they were not citizens in this country, they would have to self-deport. Where would my brother go? He was born here but he was in the army. How about my dad? How about my husband?
Speaker 1:It's just very sad to read some of these things and say, you know, oh, I agree with what's going on in our country. Well, I don't, okay. Anyway, I always assumed a green card, legal residency is just like having citizenship, he added. I just never felt like I had to go get citizenship. And that's just being honest. As a kid growing up in the United States, I've always just thought I'm a green card holder, I'm just like a citizen.
Speaker 1:His condition has spiraled since then. All right, I'm losing it. I can't stop crying. I think PTSD kicking in so strong. Oh, he's a mess. The good things, you know. I'm not here to tell anybody if they're a green card holder to get their citizenship. That's up to them. But the way the world is going now in our country, we're deporting some of our best people I'm really hardworking people who just wanted a better life for themselves, like my grandparents who came here. So they wanted a better life.
Speaker 1:So anyway, I just thought I would briefly come in and talk about this, any headline that I found. Thank you very much, seema. Is it Metha or Metha who wrote the article in the LA Times today in the California section? Read it, you get a chance. Don't just listen to me, you know or hear what I say. You get a chance. Don't just listen to me, you know or hear what I say, but I'm grateful if you hear what I say, because you know I'm for people who are struggling in this country, who want to make something of themselves. So I love you all and if nobody told you they love you today, I love you because you're you. Please subscribe to my podcast. You know it may not be number one, you know, on Spotify, in fact, you've got 21 downloads, which I'm very grateful for, and I may not do it every day now and I really want to. I just have to, you know, focus on that, but it means the world to me if you won't listen to this.
Speaker 1:If you believe what I believe, that there are people in this country that deserve to be here and we should make an effort, you know, to allow them and help them to be here, because they're upstanding people who have always paid taxes, taken care of their families and have no warrants against them. So he did drugs, okay, 40 years ago, so did I. I was, you know, alcohol and drugs, and that's changed for me 40 years, in 1985. So things change. Anyway, my friend I don't know you Okay, he's a Purple Heart recipient, say June Park, okay, with his children. So, alibi, I wish you the best and I hope things work out for you and your family, because you do deserve to be here. Okay, that's all I'm saying. So take care of yourself, everybody today, and be good to yourself. And if nobody told you they love you, today, I love you because you are you.