In “The Forgotten Asian Refugees Fed Into The U.S. Prison System” by Kimberly Yam, it discusses how many Cambodians who fled to the United States with hopes of Starting over. In an attempt to flee their hometown in Cambodia due to a communist tyranny, people like Phal Sok and his family looked towards the United States for a place to thrive. The country that once accepted them with open arms even under the name of a refugee, was the same country that turned on them. Forcing them,back to their homeland even though they had never been there. Under the Trump administration, South East Asians live their life in fear of being deported due to increased activities of ICE. In the article, ICE arrested many refugees from South Asia and these refugees were then deported from the country. Based on my opinion, it’s very unfair how refugees are treated here. How does the same country that accepts them in doesn’t care about them at all? It is just really sad to see how bad immigration policies are becoming 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.
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First of all, thanks for your share, I’ve read it all and I can say I agree with your friends. Because I can also feel the anxiety of Cambodian people about being deported!
I agree that the law is hypocritical. Even in their definition of “refugee” which applies more to the Khmer rouge, because a refugee has to be persecuted by a government that is in power and the Khmer rouge overthrew the Cambodian government. The same terrorists who sent the Cambodian people running for their lives matched America’s definition of a refugee than an actual refugee.