Help Stop Khmer Refugee Deportation
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About 8 individuals in Minnesota have been detained at the end on August. On September 7th, they left Minnesota via plane, stopping in several states to collect other Khmer people. Families were told they are being routed to California to meet with the Cambodian Consulate, afterwhich they are to return to Minneosta and wait.
Ched Nin is one of the Minnesotans that was detained. He responded to a letter sent to him by ICE to come to their office in Saint Paul, MN and was held, pulled out of his life and his family's world turned upside down.
We need your support for legal fees, processing fees
and the tremendous expense of attempting to undo this in the short window of opportunity we have. There is a legal way out. We can file a Motion to ReOpen his case and do a Motion to Vacate his conviction. Unfortunately, we have lost half of our income and are in need of assistance from our friends and family. We sincerely appreciate any help towards the goal of bringing Ched home that you can give.
Please contribute to helping us stop Ched Nin's deportation and share this link to others.
There is also a petition to sign at:
https://www.change.org/p/stop-deporting-khmer-refugees
Ched is a gracious man who loves unconditionally. He is a child, brother, husband, father, uncle, neighbor and friend, all who know him, know he is a gentle soul. Ched needs to be home with his family, he worked until the day he was held, paid taxes, cares for his children, parents and people in the neighborhood and community. He does not hesitate to volunteer and makes himself available to people when they ask. He is a good citizen, that contributes well to the United States and should remain in the United States with his family. Deportation of Refugees is wrong and needs to be stopped! Immigration reform from 1996, stripped people of their status who have done a crime from misdemeanors to felonies. Ched served his time of 2 years for the wrong he did in his past. He takes accountability for that wrong and has completely changed his life. He should not get a lifetime punishment (double jeopardy) and be deported back to country that he has never been to and his family had fled (he was born in and stayed in Refugee camps in Thailand and the Philippines for six years before coming to the United States.)
He is a family person, who intentionally tries to bring a smile to the faces of people he encounters because he cares and wants to bring happiness to every person he meets! Ched didnt have the money for the citizenship process when he was younger and after serving 2 years it was too late to try. He lived under the belief that as long as he remained law abiding and worked hard he could retry in 10 years, this is a myth. His deportation hearing done by video without representation did not serve him well.
Brief Educational Information about Cambodian Deportations
For the last two decades, the federal government has been pursuing an enforcement-first approach to immigration that prioritizes mandatory detention and deportation. This last administration has deported more than 2 million individuals, and this number continues to rise.
In November 2014, President Obama announced an Executive Order that expands relief beyond Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals to provide nearly 5 million people administrative relief from deportation. This expansion is being challenged in courts and therefore delayed in launch. Even with this relief, millions of families will be left out and still face separation and deportation. The Department of Homeland Security has intensified raids in immigrant communities, deporting thousands of community members, some of whom qualify for relief.
The impact on Southeast Asian refugee communities is often neglected in this massive deportation machine. 2015 marks 40 years since Southeast Asian refugees were displaced by militarism and war and began resettlement in the US. Decades later, people are being deported back to countries they fled or have never stepped foot in.
Timeline
1969-1973 - Years of bombing (escalated by Henry Kissinger) in led to the destabilization of Cambodia destabilizing it and creating the conditions for the rise to power and genocidal leadership of the Khmer Rouge.
1970s - Due to war, political upheavals and genocide, a mass influx of Southeast Asians took refuge in the U.S.
1975-2002 - About 1,146,650 Southeast Asians were resettled in the U.S. To deal with this massive influx, the Office of Refugee Resettlement was created in 1980.
Most families were resettled into inhumane conditions in impoverished neighborhoods where Southeast Asian refugee communities were vulnerable to poverty, crime, violence, structural disadvantage, racism, discrimination, and profiling.
Across the country, law enforcement agencies labeled Cambodian communities as “gang infested,” and over-policing of Cambodian communities led to racial profiling, police brutality, and high incarceration rates—higher than any other Asian ethnic group in relation to the size of the Cambodian population.
1996 - US passed the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA) and Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA). These laws expanded “aggravated felony” to include offenses that are neither aggravated or felonies under criminal justice law, but lead to deportation under immigration law.
2002 - US signed a Repatriation Agreement with Cambodia—without transparency, insight, or accountability to the community impacted—and began deporting Cambodian- Americans. US Aid to Cambodia was in jeopardy for the Cambodian government who took a harsher position than Vietnam who will not accept anyone who arrived in the US prior to 1995. Cambodia has only recently started accepting deportees most of a gang affiliation background, Ched Nin has NO gang affliation in his past or present nor did any of the others detained with him on August 26th. Low level felonies and misdemeanors now are inclusive in the "round-up" of Vietnam war refugees from Cambodia.
Ched Nin is one of the Minnesotans that was detained. He responded to a letter sent to him by ICE to come to their office in Saint Paul, MN and was held, pulled out of his life and his family's world turned upside down.
We need your support for legal fees, processing fees
and the tremendous expense of attempting to undo this in the short window of opportunity we have. There is a legal way out. We can file a Motion to ReOpen his case and do a Motion to Vacate his conviction. Unfortunately, we have lost half of our income and are in need of assistance from our friends and family. We sincerely appreciate any help towards the goal of bringing Ched home that you can give.
Please contribute to helping us stop Ched Nin's deportation and share this link to others.
There is also a petition to sign at:
https://www.change.org/p/stop-deporting-khmer-refugees
Ched is a gracious man who loves unconditionally. He is a child, brother, husband, father, uncle, neighbor and friend, all who know him, know he is a gentle soul. Ched needs to be home with his family, he worked until the day he was held, paid taxes, cares for his children, parents and people in the neighborhood and community. He does not hesitate to volunteer and makes himself available to people when they ask. He is a good citizen, that contributes well to the United States and should remain in the United States with his family. Deportation of Refugees is wrong and needs to be stopped! Immigration reform from 1996, stripped people of their status who have done a crime from misdemeanors to felonies. Ched served his time of 2 years for the wrong he did in his past. He takes accountability for that wrong and has completely changed his life. He should not get a lifetime punishment (double jeopardy) and be deported back to country that he has never been to and his family had fled (he was born in and stayed in Refugee camps in Thailand and the Philippines for six years before coming to the United States.)
He is a family person, who intentionally tries to bring a smile to the faces of people he encounters because he cares and wants to bring happiness to every person he meets! Ched didnt have the money for the citizenship process when he was younger and after serving 2 years it was too late to try. He lived under the belief that as long as he remained law abiding and worked hard he could retry in 10 years, this is a myth. His deportation hearing done by video without representation did not serve him well.
Brief Educational Information about Cambodian Deportations
For the last two decades, the federal government has been pursuing an enforcement-first approach to immigration that prioritizes mandatory detention and deportation. This last administration has deported more than 2 million individuals, and this number continues to rise.
In November 2014, President Obama announced an Executive Order that expands relief beyond Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals to provide nearly 5 million people administrative relief from deportation. This expansion is being challenged in courts and therefore delayed in launch. Even with this relief, millions of families will be left out and still face separation and deportation. The Department of Homeland Security has intensified raids in immigrant communities, deporting thousands of community members, some of whom qualify for relief.
The impact on Southeast Asian refugee communities is often neglected in this massive deportation machine. 2015 marks 40 years since Southeast Asian refugees were displaced by militarism and war and began resettlement in the US. Decades later, people are being deported back to countries they fled or have never stepped foot in.
Timeline1969-1973 - Years of bombing (escalated by Henry Kissinger) in led to the destabilization of Cambodia destabilizing it and creating the conditions for the rise to power and genocidal leadership of the Khmer Rouge.
1970s - Due to war, political upheavals and genocide, a mass influx of Southeast Asians took refuge in the U.S.
1975-2002 - About 1,146,650 Southeast Asians were resettled in the U.S. To deal with this massive influx, the Office of Refugee Resettlement was created in 1980.
Most families were resettled into inhumane conditions in impoverished neighborhoods where Southeast Asian refugee communities were vulnerable to poverty, crime, violence, structural disadvantage, racism, discrimination, and profiling.
Across the country, law enforcement agencies labeled Cambodian communities as “gang infested,” and over-policing of Cambodian communities led to racial profiling, police brutality, and high incarceration rates—higher than any other Asian ethnic group in relation to the size of the Cambodian population.
1996 - US passed the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRIRA) and Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA). These laws expanded “aggravated felony” to include offenses that are neither aggravated or felonies under criminal justice law, but lead to deportation under immigration law.
2002 - US signed a Repatriation Agreement with Cambodia—without transparency, insight, or accountability to the community impacted—and began deporting Cambodian- Americans. US Aid to Cambodia was in jeopardy for the Cambodian government who took a harsher position than Vietnam who will not accept anyone who arrived in the US prior to 1995. Cambodia has only recently started accepting deportees most of a gang affiliation background, Ched Nin has NO gang affliation in his past or present nor did any of the others detained with him on August 26th. Low level felonies and misdemeanors now are inclusive in the "round-up" of Vietnam war refugees from Cambodia.
Organizer and beneficiary
Prudence Carlson
Organizer
Farmington, MN
Jennifer Srey
Beneficiary
