Harvard grad and Rhodes recipient worries about being able to return to U.S. after fellowship
Jin Park could hardly believe he he’d been chosen to study at one of the world’s most-storied universities when he was named a Rhodes Scholar last fall. A 2018 graduate of Harvard College, Park, 23, was the first person in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program to win the honor. But instead of looking forward to traveling to England for graduate study at the University of Oxford in October, Park is unsure he can safely begin his Rhodes studies because he might not be able to return to his Queens, N.Y., neighborhood. On Wednesday, Park testified in Washington before a hearing of the House Judiciary Committee about the precarious position that he and others living with DACA status are in and the “impossible” choice he says he faces as a result of current U.S. policy. After President Trump terminated the program in 2017, DACA recipients, who are often called Dreamers,...