Luke Duggleby

CAMBODIA: Returned to Sender

Bunreas Pin, 22, or Boomer to his mates. Part of the Asian Boyz gang in Stockton, California; he was sent here straight from prison at the age of 20 after being imprisoned just after his 18th birthday. After adapting to the new life; he got a job at the Intercontinental Hotel in Phnom Penh due to his English language skills and now serves VIPs. 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.
Bunreas Pin, 22, or Boomer to his mates. Part of the Asian Boyz gang in Stockton, California; he was sent here straight from prison at the age of 20 after being imprisoned just after his 18th birthday. After adapting to the new life; he got a job at the Intercontinental Hotel in Phnom Penh due to his English language skills and now serves VIPs.

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.