Trump admin detains Vietnamese people who arrived as refugees
For over a month, a 43-year-old Vietnamese man has been sitting in a Louisiana detention center waiting to see whether he will be deported to a country he fled as a boy.
Huy Quoc Phan, who has an American wife and kids, is among thousands of people who arrived as refugees after the end of the Vietnam War and are now being targeted for removal.
The Alabama warehouse worker served 15 years in prison for his involvement in a robbery that led to a shopkeeper's death.
His wife of six years, Amy, 39, said she knew of the crime, which took place when he was 17.
“I didn’t hold it against him when I met him,” she said. “I think people should be given second chances.”
For decades, both Republican and Democratic administrations agreed ‒ at least for immigrants from Vietnam, a country the United States left in disgrace five decades years ago. Although immigrants from other countries were routinely deported after serving time for crimes, the Vietnamese were allowed to stay.
Not anymore.
In his first administration, President Donald Trump sought to end that special treatment. Four months into his second term, he has stepped up efforts to deport as many immigrants as possible, including Vietnamese.
Tricia McLaughlin, an assistant secretary at the Department of Homeland Security, said people like Phan deserve to be deported because of their criminal past.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/05/28/trump-administration-vietnamese-refugees-detains-black-april/83475733007/
He was 17, FFS! A KID! And yet the orange slime keeps pardoning people like the Chrisleys and that fat Sheriff in VA, WTF???
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