rubberbaron wrote:I had some contact with the overseas Cambodian community in the U. S. because of my wife and I would agree that most stories are BS, but you can't just lump them together like this. It is really unbelievable, though, she did not know about her status. She needed to get a drivers license, a social security number. Even questionaires in school ask for your race, though not your nationality; so it never occurred to her that being Cambodian also involves the issue of nationality? Hard to believe. On the other hand, you have quite a few Khmer who pay overseas Cambodian-Americans to marry one of their children so they can emigrate there. Once these people people got their green cards, they can't wait for the 5 years to be over for them to apply for citizenship so they can sponsor their parents. This has been going on for a long time and these people are not necessarily the most educated either. Why do these people know how to do things, but those deportees have all been in the dark about any legal issues. The minute they were arrested for a felony their nationality came up. And they still didn't know? Of course, the moral question about these deportations would be for the U. S. government to answer.