Vietnam War Refugees Deported Under Trump Struggle To Settle
Mohammad Ali (@ChaudhryMAli88) Published April 21, 2018 | 08:50 AM
Ho Chi Minh City, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 21st Apr, 2018 ) :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.
Nguyen left his four grown kids and second wife Annie behind in Boston, and now spends his days aimlessly cruising the web because he cannot find work, or battling bureaucracy to obtain identity papers.
"I still don't believe it," Nguyen told AFP in Ho Chi Minh City this week, using only his last name for safety. "I really want to go back there because I lived there for more of my life there than here," said Nguyen, who's not yet used to the city's sweltering heat and complains of dry fried chicken at the local KFC.
The former construction worker was sent to immigration detention with orders of removal after his prison release last year, joining some 8,600 Vietnamese nationals tagged for deportation, most with criminal records.
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.
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