In response to “Deporting Our Souls and Defending
Our Immigrants.” By Bill Ong Hing
In this article, author
Bill Ong Hing talks about the different policies towards Asian American
immigrants in terms of deportation and crimes. According to a previous law, any
immigrant could be deported to their “home country” if they have convicted a
felony and are turned over to immigration officials. What is surprising and
upsetting is that even someone of permanent residency could be deported for
some relatively small crime, such as a possession of drugs. Any minor offense
could lead to the person being deported. This person could be living in the
United States for ten years and could not speak his or her home language, but
he or she would be deported. This breaks up families and does not fix the
problems of crimes and gangs. After twenty years, this law is replaced with
another one which grants a little more justice. It allows the cancelling of a
deportation order as long the deportee follows certain rules and does commit
something considered as “aggravated felony”.
What surprised me was
the fact that lawful permanent residents could fall to deportation in the past.
Even though the law has been changed a bit, it brings little relief because it
is still easy for officials to write a crime off as something worse than it
actually is. This presents the question, what could the government have done
better to amend laws in order to fix homeland crimes, and without aggravating
the situation for immigrants?
Xishan (Lucy) Ye
Section A02
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