Vannyka Lim DB 10

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. Pal Sok’s family, one of the many families who fled their home to escape A khmer rouge, with little support upon arrival in the US, they face many issues, poverty, unstable finance. They grow up poor, face bullying in school and no one to understand them, they begin to drop out of school or push out of school and begin to seek help elsewhere which lead to most of them to join gangs where they feel emotional comfort and solace, they feel they could fit in somewhere. Many of them are involved in crimes and as result in risk of being deported back to Cambodia. Under the Trump administration, South East Asians live their life in fear of being deported due to increased activities of ICE. Many SouthEast Asians are being deported, most are people who have never seen Cambodia or speak the language. Many of them use alcohol and drug to cope with the stress of repatriation, and found to have PTSD, some even resort to committed suicide. Many immigrants hope to start new lives in a new country where they could feel a little more secure with their life. And to find out that they are being told to be deported back to their country where they have not been for many years, people are being separated from their family, it felt dejected where the country who brought in to start new and now they are deporting them back. At least during this hard time, the SE Asian communities are still being supportive of each other when one is needed like Sak who currently with an organizer called Youth Justice Coalition to help others prevent them from going down the same path he did.