He earned a Purple Heart fighting for the US. Swept up in Trump’s immigration crackdown, he now fights to come home | CNN

When Sae Joon Park orders pancakes and walks past soldiers in uniform, hearing a language he hasn’t spoken regularly since self‑deporting from the United States last summer, it feels – for a few hours – like he’s home. Instead, he’s thousands of miles away, behind the guarded gates of Camp Humphreys, a US Army garrison south of South Korea’s capital Seoul with a sprawling campus of chain restaurants, housing blocks and training grounds. “When I’m on base, it actually feels like I’m in America,” says the 56‑year‑old Army veteran, who returned to his country of birth last June, a place he had not lived since he was a child. A Purple Heart recipient, Park is among a number of noncitizen US military veterans who have self-deported or been expelled from the country they fought for under President Donald Trump’s sweeping immigration crackdown – which immigration attorneys say has revived old removal orders and sharply curtailed prosecutorial discretion. Park, a former green-card holder, self-deported last summer after immigration officials unexpectedly threatened to handcuff and arrest him at a scheduled immigration check-in due to a prior criminal convictio