Luke Duggleby

CAMBODIA: Returned to Sender

Chhin Toeun, 24, (Hawaii) sits with a fellow deportee Eric at a noodle stall in central Phnom Penh. 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.
Chhin Toeun, 24, (Hawaii) sits with a fellow deportee Eric at a noodle stall in central Phnom Penh. 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.