In “The Forgotten Asian Refugees”, I found that most refugees that have to resettle are not supported by anything. As a result they struggled to move forward successfully with their lives. For instance, some turn to the streets, gangs, and imprisonment of Southeast Asians skyrocketed as a result. Another condition of the refugee resettlement was the high high school and college drop out rates. There were more reports of bullying, poverty, and difficulty learning the U.S. language and culture. The economic part was troubling for those families because they were financially unstable, which caused families/parents to separate.
Some immigrants that are moved as refugees end up detained by I.C.E. The problem is when these people left their countries it was for the purpose of escaping violence and war breakouts. If they are detained or deported their life is back in harm’s way. Those that are criminalized face evictions from American society because all of their crimes are tied back to the years starting after their resettlement.
Deportation has shown families and deportees suffered from PTSD, trauma, and fear because they don’t know what they’ll be going back into. Some suffer so bad, they turn to crime, alcohol, drugs, and gain suicidal tendencies. Deportation is less healthy for communities, not safer. It breaks up families that do not even ask to be so heartbroken.
It is just really sad to see how bad things are getting with immigration policies that people have to hide out in fear regardless they are in their home country around violence or in the U.S. hiding from I.C.E.
Hi Alexis, you made such a good point. People shouldn’t have to live in fear where they are never knowing what could happen. Deportation really is less healthy for communities because it evoked unnecessary fear and panic within it. It also took a more mental toll on people and that isn’t something that should happen just because you want to live in a safe place.
Hey Alexis, I agree with where you’re coming from and i love what you said at the end where immigration policies are getting out of control which brought me back to earlier this year when Trump sent ICE on a rampage looking for immigrants that was a scary moment, people were living in fear.
Hey Alexis, I agree with your statement about America, it makes me really wonder if America is really the land of the free. It seems its only the land of the free for White Americans.
Hi Alexis,
I completely agree with you. Due to the disorganized policy of the US’s refugee law and immigration policy, these people had to endure a lot of sufferings in their life. They are stuck in a situation where they neither can live in peace within the US nor in their war torn home country.