More than 50 US deportees expected in Cambodia on Thursday

[geovalin]

Daphne Chen

 

The US is deporting 51 Cambodians who are expected to arrive in the country on Thursday, the single largest group of deportees in the history of the contentious 15-year repatriation program.

 

The group is expected to include deportees with chronic mental and physical health conditions, according to 1Love Cambodia, a support group for the returnees.

 

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[bubba]

The group is expected to include deportees with chronic mental and physical health conditions, according to 1Love Cambodia, a support group for the returnees. Most of the deportees entered the US as refugee children fleeing the Khmer Rouge with their families, and many have never been to Cambodia and don’t speak Khmer.

 

How incredibly cruel of the United States to deport ill and handicapped people who lived almost their entire life in the USA, cannot speak Khmer and probably have no family or friends in Cambodia to help them. Can you imagine what their life will be like in Cambodia?

Edited April 4, 2018 by bubba

[natway09]

Agreed  bubba,  & the US yaks on about human rights.....joke

[Jingthing]

Heartless. 

[Songlaw]

If this is true as presented, the US has finally lost even the facade of the moral high ground. Unconscionable. 

[Jingthing]

7 minutes ago, Songlaw said:

If this is true as presented, the US has finally lost even the facade of the moral high ground. Unconscionable. 

You just noticed? 

[ChiangMaiLightning2143]

Thin on details most of the Cambodians deported under this program could have gotten US passport long ago other than for pure laziness.

In the meantime become involved in crimes and Asian gangs who terrorize immigrant communities. Seven years in Orange County I know. One of my Vietnamese girlfriends grew up running with such crowds, why don’t you apply for citizenship? Oh, such a hassle.

[Srikcir]

2 hours ago, Songlaw said:

If this is true as presented, the US has finally lost even the facade of the moral high ground. Unconscionable. 

Call it MAGA.

Trump's lack of any moral compass.

[Srikcir]

2 hours ago, ChiangMaiLightning2143 said:

Thin on details most of the Cambodians deported under this program could have gotten US passport long ago

Sad they didn't registered for Obama's DACA program.

The court has stopped for now deportation of "Dreamers."

[ChiangMaiLightning2143]

DACA is for illegal child arrivals.

[BTB1977]

Let the legal  in and the bad out. Most countries doing that now. Not just America. 

[Sheryl]

They came legally.

 

They were eligible for citizenship but never sought it.

 

Then they got convicted of felony crimes.

 

Under the law, non-citizens so convicted are deported.

 

Just explaining how/why it happens.  I do sympathize with them, and agree the law should be modified to be less stringent in cases of persons who are under a certain age and have lived in the US most of their lives. Or at least allow judges more discretion to take those sort of things into account. Some of these deportees are still pretty young and their lack of citizenship reflects on their parents' decision making at least as much as their own.

[ChiangMaiLightning2143]

Most are bad but some deported for previous convictions reclassified retroactively may not have even been a state felony and minor drug busts. A bad situation in this climate when judges have no discretion.