Jericho Faderon DB#10

I learned about refugee “resettlement,” criminalization and the impacts of immigration enforcement in SE Asian communities show how easily someone can turn their backs on you based on the influence of others. As shown in the reading by Yang “The Forgotten Asian Refugees Fed into the U.S. Prison System” ICE decided to deport lots of Cambodian immigrants back to Cambodia despite the fact that multiples of them have not been there in their life or may have escaped as babies/kids. My one takes away from this all is a prevalent message all across communities where they either get forcibly removed or are forced by ICE which is “trauma”. The separation of family or people from a place they are familiar with creates a trauma within them that takes years of healing just to get over and sometimes, it never even happens. Some of the feelings that came up for me were resentment that this happens, most of what I saw were minor crimes yet they get arrested for it, there should be some form of understanding that what was in the past is in the past. Especially in the case of Loeun Lun who was deported for a crime that he committed a long time ago but due to his status, was still deported anyway. Besides the feeling of resentment, I had a feeling of hope that this might change, and as of writing this it might due to the recent victory of Joe Biden in the elections. While he’s no Bernie Sanders, one can hope that he and Kamala will lead us to a better change than we were in these past four years.