Hundreds nationwide demonstrate against ICE deportations of Cambodian Americans.
Sarath Suong leads the demonstrators in a chant in front of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Sacramento, Calif., on Thursday.“Cambodia is among the nations on a list of 'recalcitrant countries' so they have been under more scrutiny by the White House to speed up removals for those with old convictions,” Katrina Dizon Mariategue, director of national policy at the Southeast Asia Resource Action Center, a Southeast Asian civil rights group, said in an email.
About 16,000 Southeast Asian Americans in the United States have a final order of removal, according to the civil rights group. ICE spokesperson Paige Hughes told NBC News in an email that as of Sept. 21, 1,764 nondetained Cambodian nationals had a final order of removal, of whom 1,276 were convicted criminals. As of that date, there were 24 Cambodian nationals in ICE detention with a final order of removal, of whom 21 were criminal, she added.
The agency has so far deported 80 Cambodians in the current fiscal year as of Sept. 21, Hughes said, adding that 70 were convicted criminals.in 2002, the Khmer Vulnerability Aid Organization , a nongovernmental organization that assists deportees transitioning to life in Cambodia, has assisted 743 Cambodian American deportees, the group's spokesperson, Bill Herod, said in an email.
“Our hearts are really with those families and those seven individuals [who were detained] and all their loved ones and their friends and their communities who this is a shock for,” Quyen Dinh, executive director of the Southeast Asia Resource Action Center, said.
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