Luke Duggleby

CAMBODIA: Returned to Sender

So Chamroeun (Charlie), 32, sits outside Hawaii's apartment. Struggling with substance abuse, Hawaii gives him a hankerchief filled with ice. Many deportees struggle with adapting to life and turn to using drugs and alcohol as a way to escape. After escaping the Khmer Rouge regime to the US as refugees, many young American Cambodians are being sent back to Cambodia never to return to the US again. A new policy in 2002 meant that any US-Cambodian who still had not applied for US citizenship and had been convicted of a felony would be deported back to Cambodia after living in the US all their life. Over 1400 convicted felons are proposed to be sent back in the next few years and naturally the re-adjustment to a life they don't know or understand is a difficult one
So Chamroeun (Charlie), 32, sits outside Hawaii's apartment. Struggling with substance abuse, Hawaii gives him a hankerchief filled with ice. Many deportees struggle with adapting to life and turn to using drugs and alcohol as a way to escape.

After escaping the Khmer Rouge regime to the US as refugees, many young American Cambodians are being sent back to Cambodia never to return to the US again. A new policy in 2002 meant that any US-Cambodian who still had not applied for US citizenship and had been convicted of a felony would be deported back to Cambodia after living in the US all their life.

Over 1400 convicted felons are proposed to be sent back in the next few years and naturally the re-adjustment to a life they don't know or understand is a difficult one