In this interview with Phi Nguyen, we discuss her path into law, intensified efforts by ICE to target, detain, and deport the Vietnamese community, how the U.S. is violating the Repatriation Agreement through unlawful detention of pre-1995 Vietnamese immigrants, the "closed door" nature of government negotiations, a punitive immigration system, and Phi's experiences working with detained people.

To learn more about this issue, read this incredible and comprehensive comic by Thi Bui: Refugee to Detainee: How the U.S. is Deporting Those Seeking a Safe Haven

To read the full lawsuit, click here. 

Wana help? Sign this petition to #KeepPJHome.

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Phi Nguyen:

Twitter:  @phiunguyen

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Episode 01 is an audio montage stitching together the voices of my guests, Chhaya Chhoum, Sina Sam, and Tracy Nguyen. I asked them to respond to one question, "What are the critical issues impacting the Southeast Asian community today, and how are you organizing for it?" 

In this episode, my guests touch upon: deportation, disparity, lack of disaggregated data, crimmigration, school to prison to deportation pipeline, organizing as healing, and centering the most impacted to build community power.

To learn more about today's guests and their affiliated organizations, visit the links below: 

http://hellafly.graphics/ 

mekongnyc.org

https://www.facebook.com/SEAfreedomnetwork/

http://www.searac.org/

http://www.fightwa.org/

http://www.asianprisonersupport.com/

https://www.facebook.com/VietUnityEB/

https://capaa.wa.gov