The Trump Administration Is About To Deport Nearly 50 Cambodian Immigrants. Attorneys And Activists
Source: BuzzFeed News
A plane of detained Cambodian immigrants is set to take off from the US Monday in what attorneys believe is the largest deportation flight to Phnom Penh under the Trump administration.
Salvador Hernandez
BuzzFeed News Reporter
Posted on December 15, 2018, at 10:43 p.m. ET
More than 40 Cambodian immigrants are set to be flown out of the United States on Monday in what attorneys believe is the largest deportation flight of Cambodian immigrants under the Trump administration.
The Omni Air International flight carrying 46 Cambodians is set to leave from El Paso, Texas, to Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, one of several repatriation flights taking immigrants back to a country many left as young children, Kevin Lo, a staff attorney for Asian Americans Advancing Justice, told BuzzFeed News.
"Instead of taking 12 to 20 a year, we're talking about 50 to 100 every time [U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement] detains Cambodians," Lo said.
For more than a year, the Trump administration has drastically increased the deportations of Southeast Asian immigrants, as it pressures countries like Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam to accept more repatriations of immigrants detained in the US.
Read more: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/salvadorhernandez/the-trump-administration-is-about-to-deport-nearly-50
FuzzyRabbit
(1,970 posts)Is this Stephen Miller's "Final Solution"?
laserhaas
(7,805 posts)Just sayin...
dalton99a
(81,636 posts)moonseller66
(430 posts)All of these deportations involve plane flights, bus trips and sea travel plus I'm sure more than the usual amount of, probably not-so-cheap (un-needed?) paper work, human interfacing and escorting that wouldn't be necessary if there were no or fewer of these questionable deportations.
You know the SS, I mean ICE, isn't doing this for free! We're paying a lot of money to the American Gestapo, Coporations and questionable private businesses that could be spent Americanizing these people...at least the ones who aren't "Criminals" like those working for the POS in charge. You know, the "one or two" who aren't members of gangs or muscular men or whatever according to the dipshit in charge!
Just how much has it cost to send all the immigrants back, Donnie? What could we have done with all that money for those who really needed help instead of lining the pockets of over zealous "just following orders" greedy black and brown shirts?
An inquiring American wants to know what your doing with his tax dollars!
laserhaas
(7,805 posts)dembotoz
(16,864 posts)poem might be getting too close for comfort
First They Came For The Jews - Poem by Martin Niemöller
First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.
Martin Niemöller
Grins
(7,239 posts)I know what you are trying to say, but the first line of Niemöller's poem is actually:
"First they came for the socialists..."
Then the trade unionists, and then the Jews.
dembotoz
(16,864 posts)Damn internet tubes
cntrfthrs
(252 posts)immigrants are being deported......