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12-04-2018, 10:48 PM
Victims of War, and Now Victims of the Trump Administration
The U.S. has deported Vietnamese refugees in violation of a 2008 agreement. Now it is indefinitely detaining many others.
What is an appropriate punishment for a crime?
The plight of thousands of Vietnamese refugees convicted of crimes in the United States and now threatened with detention or deportation demands an answer to this question.
Mr. Trump has set his sights on deporting more than 8,000 permanent residents from Vietnam, most of whom had fled the war and had been protected from removal despite their crimes.
Nearly a dozen (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/thousands-of-vietnamese-including-offspring-of-us-troops-could-be-deported-under-tough-trump-policy/2018/08/30/8de80848-a6d0-11e8-b76b-d513a40042f6_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.4b179ad0c6b5) Vietnamese refugees were sent to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam beginning late last year.
the administration is using long-term detention as a means of punishing those it cannot immediately remove.
Dozens (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/thousands-of-vietnamese-including-offspring-of-us-troops-could-be-deported-under-tough-trump-policy/2018/08/30/8de80848-a6d0-11e8-b76b-d513a40042f6_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.761c853d1bf2) of Vietnamese refugees with felony records are being held in immigrant detention centers.
the Trump administration has held some Vietnamese for 180 days and longer, even though it has acknowledged that their removal to Vietnam is “not reasonably foreseeable (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/22/world/asia/vietnam-trump-immigrants-deport.html?module=inline).”
Though it has promised to release some refugees,
it has said it has the right to detain them indefinitely and to confine them again in the future.
the goal of indefinite and repeated detention is to “psychologically torment and break these people.”
“They’re in lockdown 23 hours of the day,”
Mr. Nguyen told us. “It’s worse than prison where at least you know what you did and when you’re getting out.”
Yet these refugees were thoroughly punished for their crimes at the state or federal level, and most of them moved on to find stable employment and to raise families,
Mr. Nguyen says. Now, they face a second and indeterminate sentence, though they have not committed new crimes.
it also stands out for how radically
this administration has departed from the bipartisan consensus supporting Cold War refugees since the end of the Vietnam War.
In 2008 President George W. Bush signed an agreement (https://www.state.gov/documents/organization/108921.pdf) with Hanoi stipulating that Vietnamese refugees who entered the United States before 1995 would not be sent back to Vietnam, even if they had committed crimes that normally would have led to deportation.
Today, punishing Vietnamese refugees symbolizes the new American doctrine: deportation for deportation’s sake.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/03/opinion/vietnam-refugees-trump-immigration.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Goddamn to burning hell this fucking Stephen Miller, ranks right alongside Hitlers's ethnic cleansers.
The U.S. has deported Vietnamese refugees in violation of a 2008 agreement. Now it is indefinitely detaining many others.
What is an appropriate punishment for a crime?
The plight of thousands of Vietnamese refugees convicted of crimes in the United States and now threatened with detention or deportation demands an answer to this question.
Mr. Trump has set his sights on deporting more than 8,000 permanent residents from Vietnam, most of whom had fled the war and had been protected from removal despite their crimes.
Nearly a dozen (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/thousands-of-vietnamese-including-offspring-of-us-troops-could-be-deported-under-tough-trump-policy/2018/08/30/8de80848-a6d0-11e8-b76b-d513a40042f6_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.4b179ad0c6b5) Vietnamese refugees were sent to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam beginning late last year.
the administration is using long-term detention as a means of punishing those it cannot immediately remove.
Dozens (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/thousands-of-vietnamese-including-offspring-of-us-troops-could-be-deported-under-tough-trump-policy/2018/08/30/8de80848-a6d0-11e8-b76b-d513a40042f6_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.761c853d1bf2) of Vietnamese refugees with felony records are being held in immigrant detention centers.
the Trump administration has held some Vietnamese for 180 days and longer, even though it has acknowledged that their removal to Vietnam is “not reasonably foreseeable (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/22/world/asia/vietnam-trump-immigrants-deport.html?module=inline).”
Though it has promised to release some refugees,
it has said it has the right to detain them indefinitely and to confine them again in the future.
the goal of indefinite and repeated detention is to “psychologically torment and break these people.”
“They’re in lockdown 23 hours of the day,”
Mr. Nguyen told us. “It’s worse than prison where at least you know what you did and when you’re getting out.”
Yet these refugees were thoroughly punished for their crimes at the state or federal level, and most of them moved on to find stable employment and to raise families,
Mr. Nguyen says. Now, they face a second and indeterminate sentence, though they have not committed new crimes.
it also stands out for how radically
this administration has departed from the bipartisan consensus supporting Cold War refugees since the end of the Vietnam War.
In 2008 President George W. Bush signed an agreement (https://www.state.gov/documents/organization/108921.pdf) with Hanoi stipulating that Vietnamese refugees who entered the United States before 1995 would not be sent back to Vietnam, even if they had committed crimes that normally would have led to deportation.
Today, punishing Vietnamese refugees symbolizes the new American doctrine: deportation for deportation’s sake.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/03/opinion/vietnam-refugees-trump-immigration.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Goddamn to burning hell this fucking Stephen Miller, ranks right alongside Hitlers's ethnic cleansers.