Creating Communities of Care Amidst Deportation

Fifty years after resettlement following the US War in Vietnam, nearly 17,000 Southeast Asian refugees are living with deportation orders. Most Southeast Asians with orders of removal came to the US as refugee children or youth or were born in refugee camps, were raised as Americans, and have no memories of living in Southeast Asia. Many have spent years with orders of removal, with no country to be deported to until recently.

The urgency of this issue is highlighted by the unprecedented...