It seems to me that a lot of these problems stem from a half working refugee program. As it says in the article, “Compared to other races, Southeast Asian-Americans have some of the highest dropout rates in the country, and the majority of them have not attended college.” Perhaps if we invested more in community programs for these communities of Southeast Asian immigrants we would be seeing less of these ‘gangs’ and violent crimes that are seen in the documentary.
Watching the documentary ‘Sentenced Home’, it is really saddening to see what is happening. Obviously, crime (especially violent crime) should not be tolerated, but it seems a little preposterous that people like Loeun Lun were being deported for crimes they committed many years prior and had already gone to jail for.
Honestly this just seems like a really complicated sociological problem that probably doesn’t have a simple solution. Simply not deporting these immigrants isn’t going to solve everything because it doesnt fix any of the problems that led to deportation. (such as the abuse/discrimination that happens to these people) The problems obviously run much deeper than that and therefore require a deeper solution that addresses all the problems.
