After serving 32 years in prison for a gang-related murder charge, Lam Hong Le, 54, was paroled in 2019. He was a free man… for a few minutes.
In 2020 there were a total of 1,615 ICE transfers from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, according to the Division of Correctional Policy Research and Internal Oversight Office of Research., due to decades of under-resourcing and over-policing of Southeast Asian refugee communities,"Southeast Asian refugees are 3 to 4 times more likely to be deported for past convictions when compared with other immigrant communities.
In recent years, Newsom issued similar pardons for two Cambodian refugees facing deportation in 2019; both men were convicted of crimes they committed as young adults.where it states"Vietnamese citizens are not subject to return to Vietnam if they"arrived in the United States before July 12, 1995."Participants pose for a photo a rally organized for Lam Le by Tsuru for Solidarity on June 4, 2021, in Sacramento, Calif.to exclude protections for those who have criminal records.
If Le were to be deported to Vietnam he would be returning to an unfamiliar country without a support network. Furthermore, Le could face violence and political persecution for publicly criticizing the Vietnamese government, said Angela Chan, policy director and senior staff attorney at Asian Americans Advancing Justice, a legal advocacy organization.
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