Jamie_Lambo wrote:who on earth would want to give that silly bitch money, shes brought it all on her self

yeh i would rather see a go fund me project for my gambling hookers beer and weed habits

Jamie_Lambo wrote:who on earth would want to give that silly bitch money, shes brought it all on her self

Yea, I recon NO-ONE,
absolutely no-one, should be given a second chance in life. Which means most forum members here should have had their lives terminated years ago.

Duncan wrote:

Jamie_Lambo wrote:who on earth would want to give that silly bitch money, shes brought it all on her self

Yea, I recon NO-ONE,
absolutely no-one, should be given a second chance in life. Which means most forum members here should have had their lives terminated years ago.

nothing wrong about being given a 2nd chance in life, but she signed the deportation papers herself, apparently she had plenty of opportunities to claim citizenship

Duncan wrote:

Jamie_Lambo wrote:who on earth would want to give that silly bitch money, shes brought it all on her self

Yea, I recon NO-ONE,
absolutely no-one, should be given a second chance in life. Which means most forum members here should have had their lives terminated years ago.

Pretty sweeping statement Duncan, do you number among those who should have been terminated? As for the second chance, surely that is up to the individual to make the most of,rather than expecting others to hand you cash. There are far more deserving cases all over Cambodia.

You guys are harsh. I know a woman in San Francisco who came from a similar background as the protagonist in this thread. She and her sister were gang affiliated in their early teens, but their parents were lucky enough to move them away to a better area, where they both thrived in school and went onto college. One sister is now a Stanford doctor and the other is an RN, competes in triathlons and heads up the PTA at her kid's school. Neither sister had adjusted their immigration status until they were moving into universities where, I imagine qualifying for scholarships, grants and loans might necessitate the effort and the expense. Both sisters are a credit to Cambodians and Americans everywhere, they both give much more than they got and both could just as easily been in Sophea's shoes, had their parents not found the means to give them a second chance.

It's unfortunate that Sophea didn't have the wherewithal to change her immigration status, but I can see how a young person could naively believe that doing so was of little importance, other than having the right to vote, which would be pretty far down the list of priorities for a single mother, raised in poverty and wrongly perceiving that there were no prospects for a brighter future.

II don't know whether or not there had been a fair warning that this punishment was going to come down on felons who'd neglected to adjust their immigration status. It's pretty damned unfair, in my opinion, if there wasn't sufficient warning of forced "repatriations"(they are not repatriations, they are dumpings) or if the warning wasn't well broadcasted to all who might be negatively affected. I can see dumping violent criminals back into Cambodia, but not former child refugees who commit non-violent felonies. The whole thing stinks, in my opinion, and I wish Sophea well and am happy to see that she is very close to achieving her fundraising goal.

I'm with TA on this; those who have never faced the power of government administration may not understand how easy it is to f'k up by simple omission. Once you get swept up into the bureaucratic machine, it's very hard to get out.