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I was going to say that I felt a tad sorry for him until I read this in the linked article.
he lost his legal resident status after a conviction of sexual assault of a minor in Illinois for which he served 10 years in prison




On a more serious note. Khmer women are some of the most beautifully exotic, lithe, and comely exemplars of the female species that this planet has to offer and to see what happens to some of them after a length of time in the US is utterly depressing.

That one on the left looks like she's been hooked up to an IV drip of Krispy Kreme glaze.


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That's not fat, that's camouflage. They have to blend in at the shopping malls or jealous eyes will be upon them.
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Americans are not used to eating fish and rice and fresh vegetables.
LOL-nonsense. the food is great in USA depending on what one chooses, and relatively free of the pesticides that are normal in KOW.
but what one chooses to eat is the main signifier.
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Brody wrote: On a more serious note. Khmer women are some of the most beautifully exotic, lithe, and comely exemplars of the female species that this planet has to offer and to see what happens to some of them after a length of time in the US is utterly depressing.
Typical look after spending time in the US chasing gangbangers to be their baby’s daddy.
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Thirty US deportees arrive in Kingdom
August 22, 2018
Thirty Cambodian citizens who were convicted of crimes in the United States and subsequently deported arrived in the Kingdom this morning, a senior immigration police officer told Khmer Times.

According to the officer, the group arrived at Phnom Penh International Airport at about 7.30am before being taken to the immigration department for debriefing.

“Yes, those 30 people have arrived this morning,” he said.

In early April, a total of 43 deportees also arrived in the country.
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30 Cambodians deported from US arrive in Phnom Penh
23 August 2018
Thirty Cambodians who had been living in the United States have arrived in Cambodia after being deported under a US law that allows the repatriation of immigrants who have been convicted of felonies and have not become American citizens.

The group is the latest to be sent to Cambodia under a 2002 bilateral agreement. More than 500 other Cambodians have already been repatriated.

The programme is controversial because it breaks up families, and in some cases the returnees have never lived in Cambodia, having been born to refugees who fled to camps in Thailand to escape the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime that ruled Cambodia in 1975-79.

General Prok Maytola, a senior police officer at the interior ministry overseeing the return programme, said all 30 returnees who arrived on Wednesday were men. He said they were deported from the US after having completed prison terms there.

After arriving in Cambodia, members of the group were sent to stay temporarily with a non-governmental organisation funded by the US government, and will receive training about Cambodian law and culture, and help in looking for a job.
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Strangers in their homeland: the Khmerican Cambodians Trump deported
For many deportees, the United States had been home for decades. Now, they struggle to adjust to life in the country of their birth
By Andrew McCormick
25 Aug 2018
After four months in Phnom Penh, Sothy Kum still has more bad days than good. Nights, he says, are especially hard – when the tears come and he feels every bit of the 14,000km (8,700 miles) separating him from his family and the small Wisconsin town he calls home.

In Wisconsin, Sothy Kum, 43, has a wife, Lisa, whom he met in 2009. He has a business he shares with her, which was their livelihood, and a house in a cul-de-sac, which is nothing like the one-bedroom flat he sleeps in now in a neighbourhood he can’t name, in a city he has never known. “Nearby the temple” is what he tells people when they ask where he lives.

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In 2014, Sothy Kum was convicted in the United States of a marijuana-related offence. He served a one-year prison sentence and returned to his life. In late 2016, Lisa gave birth to the couple’s daughter, Emma.

Then, early one morning last October, US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement came to Sothy Kum’s door to take him away. He was detained for six months, though he was not charged with any crime.
In April, he and 42 others were shackled and loaded onto a plane bound for Cambodia – the largest single group of deportees in the history of US-Cambodia relations.

For 37 years, Sothy Kum had never left the United States – not since his family arrived in 1981, after the refugee camps in Thailand and the Philippines, after fleeing the murderous Khmer Rouge on foot when he was just two.

Sothy Kum lived in the US on a green card bearing the words “PERMANENT RESIDENT,” but he never applied for formal citizenship. Like many on the plane with him, he never knew there was a need.
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Seems like a bum deal to me. I hope the possibility exists that his wife and daughter will join him here.
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In 2014, Sothy Kum was convicted in the United States of a marijuana-related offence.
You have to wonder what "marijuana-related" means, I guess dealing, but in what circumstances?

I have no sympathy for the violent crims caught up in this situation (though why should Cambodia have to suffer them when quite likely America made them what they became), but this seems like a very unfair case to me.

My attitude is also generally hardened when cloying happy-family photos are used as PR, but in fact, whether the "perp" has a family that they will be separated from probably should be a big consideration in sentencing.
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A wife and daughter are being punished , for what ? What was their crime ?
Cambodia,,,, Don't fall in love with her.
Like the spoilt child she is, she will not be happy till she destroys herself from within and breaks your heart.
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