Vietnam War refugees deported under Trump struggle to settle
Source: The Express Tribune/AFP
By AFP Published: April 21, 2018
HO CHI MINH CITY: Nguyen was nine when he boarded a boat alone to escape the communist regime in Vietnam for the United States. Some 40 years later, he returned in shackles, deported from the only country he really knows to one he can scarcely remember.
With conspiracy and fraud convictions under his belt, he was expelled in line with a Trump administration push to remove immigrants with criminal records for convictions ranging from traffic offenses to drug-related crimes and murder.
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In the 2017 fiscal year, 71 Vietnamese nationals were deported from the US — double the 2016 figure — and 76 have been sent so far since October 2017 according to data from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) which does not track refugees’ date of arrival to the country when compiling removal data.
The move comes as immigration officials ramp up raids and removals of aliens from Mexico, Cambodia, Myanmar and elsewhere who Trump has vowed to crack down on. Advocates argue that the expulsion of Vietnamese nationals violates a 2008 deal that says Vietnam refugees who arrived in the US before the normalisation of ties between the former war foes in 1995 should not be deported.
Read more: https://tribune.com.pk/story/1691497/3-vietnam-war-refugees-deported-trump-struggle-settle/
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I have NO doubt that being torn from whatever life and family he had established here is raw and ugly - and I personally extend an apology for the shitty hand he's been dealt here. That said, if he's able to become fluent in Vietnamese once again, he might be in a better place! There's certainly no guarantee as to what this country's future looks like. He almost certainly won't get the sort of homecoming he would have were a Honduran or Columbian citizen! 
