Vithea Yung, the Cambodian refugee who was at the center of a controversial deportation policy, was released from detention to a care faculty in Downey.
would stop federal authorities from deciding the fate of these immigrants by barring most state prison-to-ICE transfers.
Immigrant rights activists in the Southeast Asian community have long argued that non-citizens are double-punished for crimes often committed when they were teens and young men from refugee families living in impoverished, dangerous neighborhoods, where joining gangs offered protection and acceptance.Yung was sentenced 35 years to life for fatally shooting a man from a rival gang.
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