The veteran of the Purple Heart Army forced to deport after the ice order

A veteran of the Purple Heart Army who said he took two bullets on his back while serving the United States during the invasion of Panama self -supported on Monday after receiving an order from immigration officials earlier this month.

Sae Joon Park, 55, who had lived in the US. Since the age of 7, he returned to his biological country in South Korea after receiving an order related to drugs and bonds offenses for more than 15 years that, according to him, they were linked to PTSD.

Park confirmed his arrival in South Korea to News themezone in a brief message sent early Wednesday, local time. In him, he blamed President Donald Trump for his removal and said that “he will try to start a new life here.”

Courtesy Danicole Ramos

“My ice officer told me last year, if Trump is chosen, there are many possibilities for them to deport me,” he added.

A spokesman for the United States immigration control and customs sent questions to the Department of National Security, which did not immediately answer News themezone’s request for comments on Tuesday.

Park, speaking with journalists before deportation, said he had secured a legal permanent residence under a green card as a child and at age 19 he enlisted in the army. It was while fighting in Panama during the Noriega War in 1989 that shot him twice and gave him a purple heart, which is granted to any service member that is injured in defense of the nation.

Courtesy of Danicole Ramos

“In my mind, I’m going, my God, they shoot me on my back. I can’t feel my legs. I must be paralyzed,” said Hawaii News, while showing the scars on his back and his medal.

He was honorably discharged and returned home in Los Angeles, where he turned to drugs as a coping mechanism while suffering from PTSD.

“I was suffering from Tept severely,” he told NPR. “From sleeping nightmares until I like them, having fearful thoughts all the time. They couldn’t watch horror movies, they couldn’t hear strong noises.”

He said he was arrested as he met with a concessionaire in New York and that a judge ordered him to be cleaned before his next hearing in the court, who said he knew he could not do it.

Courtesy of the Danicole Park

“Then, finally, when the judge told me: ‘Do not return to my court with the dirty urine’, which I knew I would, I was scared and jumped the bond,” he told NPR.

In addition to the possession of a controlled substance position, it was sentenced in 2009 with bail jump and served three years in prison. When he left, he was arrested by ice agents and revoked his green card.

It is the conviction of bail jump that most hurt him, said his lawyer Danicole Ramos to News themezone, since it is an aggravated crime that prohibits him from any potential relief of deportation. The conviction for controlled substance is no longer a deportable crime.

Despite his convictions, he was allowed to stay in the United States under deferred action, with an agreement that was recorded every year and remained clean and out of problems, which Park said yes.

He moved to Hawaii to be closer to the family and raised two children, now in his 20 years, while he also took care of his older parents and aunts.

“These last 14 years have been great, as really proud of myself, proud of my children, how I have been acting and how I have been living my life,” News News told Hawaii.

But, just when Park had been warned, his deferred action ended abruptly earlier this month. They gave him an ankle monitor and three weeks to leave the United States or face forced deportation, he said.

“I understand it. I broke the law and everything, but I think this is a bit severe what they are doing to me after paying my quotas, after I made my time for the crime I did,” said Hawaii News now before leaving. “I thought I was doing my part to do what I have to do to be a good citizen and do everything that is fine to stay in this country.”

Park said he spent his last three weeks in the United States with his family, including his mother, who is 80 years old and in the early stages of dementia. He doesn’t expect to see her again.

“I was very lucky to deport myself, retire, because they were ready to lock me up,” he told Honolulu Kitv station. “And that is very unfair, and many people are getting locked up.”

Ramos said he is looking for potential options to bring Park back to the United States, but acknowledged that “it will be a remote possibility.”

“I sent a request to the Queens District Prosecutor’s Office to reproduce your case in which your bail jump is no longer a serious crime and falls to a minor crime, and if we can do that, then we can reopen your removal case and leave it,” he said.

Ramos has not received a response from the district prosecutor’s office as of Tuesday, he said.