Attorney Susan Kim DeClercq, President Biden’s nominee to be a federal judge in Michigan, detailed her adoption and immigration to the U.S. in emotional remarks at her first nomination hearing.
Attorney Susan Kim DeClercq, President Joe Biden’s nominee to be a federal judge in Michigan, detailed her adoption and immigration to the U.S. in emotional remarks at her firstDeClercq said that, as an infant, she had been left on the steps of a hospital in Seoul, South Korea, and was adopted and raised by a single mother in the U.S.
Biden nominated DeClercq last month to the U.S. District Court for Eastern Michigan. If she is confirmed, she would become the first federal judge of East Asian heritage in Michigan, replacingDeClercq thanked both her biological and adoptive mothers, telling the senators, “I am acutely aware that I could not have the life or opportunities that I have had without both of these remarkable women.”
Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin, D-Ill., also commended DeClercq, describing her life as “an amazing story” emblematic of how immigration has positively shaped the U.S. Durbin, whose mother was an immigrant from Lithuania, said, “immigration has made America what it is today.”
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