“She wants him to hold her, and all they can do is touch each other through the glass,” recalled Tammy Nguyen, Chari’s mother, who drove three hours that day in November to visit her incarcerated husband. He is one of thousands of Vietnamese Americans now at risk of deportation as Donald Trump’s administration aggressively targets immigrant communities that had previously been protected. The class-action suit seeks to represent all Vietnamese nationals who arrived pre-1995, are facing deportation and have been detained by Ice for more than 90 days. Attorneys are aware of nearly 40 refugees in that category, and about half of them have been detained for more than six months, the complaint said. We would have no way of living our lives.”Raedy, the Ice spokesman, did not respond to questions about the specific cases, but he noted that Ice deported 71 Vietnamese nationals in 2017, double the number deported in 2016.

Source: The Guardian March 03, 2018 12:00 UTC