VIETNAMESE REFUGEES - Some 8,000 Vietnamese immigrants are facing deportation under a new Trump administration policy - including an estimated 150 Houstonians. A handful of immigrants have already been deported despite an agreement between the US and Vietnam not to deport people who arrived to this country before 1995 - the year the two nations restored diplomatic relations. Houston attorney Khanh Pham represents a couple dozen Vietnamese immigrants from the area who face deportation under the policy change, he explained to Houston Public Media the circumstances they could face.
“And then now you’re going to be deported back to a place where you don’t know anybody," explained Pham. "A lot of these people don’t even speak the language because they’ve been gone so long.”
Pham says many of the people he represents were escaping political persecution when they arrived to the US. Louisiana also has a sizeable population of Vietnamese as well.
