U.S. Deports Dozens More Cambodian Immigrants, Some For Decades-Old Crimes
Many were granted refugee status after fleeing U.S. bombing during the Vietnam War and the massacres of the Khmer Rouge, and know little about the country where they're being forced to return.
A flight chartered by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is said to have departed Monday from El Paso, Texas, carrying about three dozen Cambodian immigrants who came to the U.S. legally, but were ordered deported for having committed a crime.
The group, expected to land in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh on Wednesday, was to include about 46 people, to an official who spoke with on the condition anonymityWhile ICE did not confirm the flight to NPR, an agency spokesman said in
