<div><span style="font-family:inherit;font-size:1rem;color:inherit;">Dear community:</span>

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<div>On Saturday, June 7, in the early morning, Lue was outside his home watering his lawn, ICE agents in unmarked vans arrested and detained him. He has since then been transferred from Sacramento to a detention facility in Hawaii. Lue is currently facing deportation to Laos (or at worst a third-party unknown country), a place that he has never lived in.

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<div>Like the thousands of Hmong families in the U.S., Lue’s family escaped war in Laos in the late 1970s. Lue was born in a refugee resettlement camp in Thailand and came here as a refugee. He has lived in Sacramento for nearly 20 years, raising his children, tinkering with bikes, and supporting his extended family as a son, son-in-law, and uncle.

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<div>We are organizing this Gofundme to support Lue and his family. Funds will go towards immediate needs, which include Lue’s legal representation, financial support for his family, and travel costs to visit Lue in detention, and longer-term needs when Lue is deported.

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<div>With gratitude,

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<div>Lue's Family

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<div>Read these articles to learn more about what’s happening to Southeast Asian refugees:

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<div>​​<a href="https://asamnews.com/2025/06/06/stepped-up-expulsion-of-southeast-asians-underway-by-trump-administration/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a><a href="https://asamnews.com/2025/06/06/stepped-up-expulsion-of-southeast-asians-underway-by-trump-administration/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><a href="https://asamnews.com/2025/06/06/stepped-up-expulsion-of-southeast-asians-underway-by-trump-administration/" target="_blank" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://asamnews.com/2025/06/06/stepped-up-expulsion-of-southeast-asians-underway-by-trump-administration/</a></a>

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<div><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/trump-deportations-south-sudan-rcna208318" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/trump-deportations-south-sudan-rcna208318" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/trump-deportations-south-sudan-rcna208318" target="_blank" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/trump-deportations-south-sudan-rcna208318</a></a>

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<div><a href="https://searac.org/news/searac-condemns-recent-deportations-carried-out-in-defiance-of-court-orders/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a><a href="https://searac.org/news/searac-condemns-recent-deportations-carried-out-in-defiance-of-court-orders/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><a href="https://searac.org/news/searac-condemns-recent-deportations-carried-out-in-defiance-of-court-orders/" target="_blank" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://searac.org/news/searac-condemns-recent-deportations-carried-out-in-defiance-of-court-orders/</a></a>

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Claire Tran

pamela lee

Anonymous

John Zhao

Jennifer Phung

Sophia Cheng

Alissa Schwartz

Prabhat Misra

Robert Hester

John Won

Alvina Yeh

Geordee Mae Corpuz

Tracy Takano

Cynthia Sugawara

In Support of Our Husband, Father, and Brother Lue

In Support of Our Husband, Father, and Brother Lue

Still $21,448 to go. Help us build momentum.